<p>BTW: I've already read and watched Harry Potter.
Oh & movies are cool as well.</p>
<p>I would reccomend The Emporer’s Club it is based around a boarding school and is one of the best movies I have ever watched before. My 2cents</p>
<p>Well-- Enid Blyton books are absolutely wonderful for British boarding school books. Though both series share alarmingly similar tendencies, Twins of St Clares and Malory Towers are both awesome series. </p>
<p>Also-- The Dispreputable History of Frankie Landeau Banks is about a BS very much like Deerfield, PEA, Andover, etc. That was an awesome book. </p>
<p>Hmmm. I’ve also heard that the book Prep is pretty good, but I’ve never read it.</p>
<p>it girl. pulling princes (based in england though).</p>
<p>these are more fantasy though.</p>
<p>Tom Browns’ School Days (Rugby) is the classic. Captains Courageous , both the book and film, touch on boarding school and “Stalky and Co”, both by Kipling.</p>
<p>A Separate Peace by John Knowels. I highly recommend. About 2 boys living in “Devon School” which is a direct replication of Phillips Exeter.</p>
<p>the private series by kate brian (chick lit)
old school by tobias wolf</p>
<p>A Good School - by Richard Yates</p>
<p>Saving Miss Oliver’s, Davenport</p>
<p>All Loves Excelling, Bunting</p>
<p>Perfectly Prep, Chase</p>
<p>i know the private series and the book prep. they were both what my mum would call “teeny bopper” books.</p>
<p>I loved reading the Enid Blyton series Malory Towers and St Claire’s when I was a child.Malory Towers was my favorite but both series of books are delightful. I recently bought some of the books for my children and although, they enjoyed reading them, I don’t think they had such a great impact on them as they did on me when I was growing up. I don’t think American teenagers can relate to them in the same way.</p>
<p>I don’t reccomend A SEPARATE PEACE. It was kinda boring if you wannaknow the truth.</p>
<p>I highly reccomend THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. It is very very funny.</p>
<p>Benevolent: I LOVED A Separate Peace! What was so boring?</p>
<p>Private books by kate brian.</p>
<p>and the it girl</p>
<p>Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld…very interesting, I thought</p>
<p>A SEPARATE PEACE… very dull. Tons of symbolism, very deep, nothing that was very exciting happened. Phineas and Gene were kinda annoying. At first I thought perhaps they were homosexual. </p>
<p>THE CATCHER IN THE RYE… I expected it to be terrible. I got a good kick outa it. He goes to a terrible BS. He’s pretty awkward with girls and stuff. It talks about Andover too. He meets this guy that goes to Andover and says something like “he thought he was a bbig shot because he went to Andover”</p>
<p>oohh~ lots of books :D</p>
<p>I would have loved to receive these during X-Mas…</p>
<p>The titles that seem to appeal to me are “It Girl” 'cuz Gossip Girl is O.K. to watch when I am super bored- not that I like people kissing in every single scene.
Private and Prep appeal to me… Actually going on Wikipedia and looking at all of these books seems so interesting. I am definately going to the library tomorrow :P</p>
<p>the Private series by Kate Brian is absolutely amaaaazing! i love it. now if only i could get my hands on the newest book… D:</p>
<p>@ benevolent: i loved A Separate Peace! lool, somebody important dies and that doesn’t qualify as big/exciting? 
i nearly cried at the ending. that’s probably because i’m overly sentimental, though. haha. :D</p>
<p>i found Prep really boring. i finished reading it yesterday, and it… was really whiny, to say the least. it’s also really sexual. and it bad mouths Cornell & uPenn! ;_;
bottom line: read Private. for sure. haha.</p>
<p>A Separate Peace was a slow book. It’s not one of my favorites.</p>
<p>Now that I think about it, I’ve read very few books about Boarding School. And I’m not talking about Gossip Girl and crap where only the rich and famous get to go, but a true portrayal of Boarding School.</p>
<p>And holy crap, the Wikipedia entry for Private is huge, though I doubt I’ll be reading it anytime soon. I’ve got a huge backlist of things to read already.</p>
<p>Haha! Private is really well-written but it is by no means realistic.</p>
<p>If a book based on boarding school was REALLY realistic, it would go like this:
“Student went to classes.
Student attended a club meeting/sport
Student ate dinner
Student did homework
Student went to sleep”
repeat process x 32948</p>