<p>I heard about this one...I think it's just called Boarding School and it's about this little boy who gets raped.
Gosh, all these books are either totally unrealistic, super old, or just plain sad.
I think we should all write a book together, a really good one!</p>
<p>Yeah. Boarding School According to 30 Crazy Teens Ecstatic About Boarding School. </p>
<p>Loads of sales on that one.</p>
<p>YEA!!!!!
letd do it!!!
is there really 30 of us here?</p>
<p>Just take a look at the Master List of Acceptances. There must be 60 people there. The only thing i don't like is that 30 kids joined March 9th just to post their results the next day. They don't get to add to the tome we will create. hehe</p>
<p>I think "Boarding School According to 30 Crazy Teens Ecstatic About Boarding School" would be extremely informative/entertaining.
Definite New York Times best seller, and plus, it would look fabulous on our college apps!</p>
<p>Exactly!
It will blow away ALL commo misconceptions and negivitity surrounding the whole idea of Boarding School.</p>
<p>(and cause a FLOOD of applicants the school year after it's published!)</p>
<p>We should SO do it!</p>
<p>Seriously, because whenever I tell people that I'm (hopefully) going to boarding school they think of either super rich, preppy kids at a school with no rules or terrible, reject kids at a school with a billion rules.
Either way, they think it's really strange that I'd want to go.
So I think the book would be a great way to help people get interested in boarding school and see how unweird it really is!</p>
<p>Precisely my dear watson!</p>
<p>I already got my pen name. I.P. Rivers. hehee</p>
<p>It took me a second to get that...
now I can't stop laughing!
12 seconds.
2 seconds</p>
<p>Prep? I read it before freshman year because I was curious, and thought it was a terrible book. Senior year, I came across it while cleaning and gave it a second read. I haven't changed my assessment of its literary merits (it's really, really, awful), but I will allow that it's uncannily accurate.</p>
<p>i don't have any other books to mention, just a blog i recently found
it looks like the person just started it, but it was certainly interesting to read
<a href="http://prepschoolconfessions.blogspot.com/%5B/url%5D">http://prepschoolconfessions.blogspot.com/</a></p>
<p>Try Black Ice. Lorene Carey. I think its Exeter in the 1970s.</p>
<p>I don't know if this helps, but here's a list of boarding school movies (copied of Wikipedia):</p>
<h1>A Great and Terrible Beauty</h1>
<h1>Scent of a Woman</h1>
<h1>M</h1>
<p>You really aren't getting that Spanish homework done, are you? But....thanks for that list.</p>
<p>Muchos Gracias!</p>
<p>Books about boarding school</p>
<p>A Separate Peace - the classic</p>
<p>Catcher in the Rye - another classic. BTW you guys should also read some of J.D. Salinger's short stories - Franny and Zoey (actually a novella I think), A Good Day for Bannanafish, etc.</p>
<p>Goodbye Mr. Chips - This used to be pretty popular, now not so much. Probably not going to be considered much of a page turner for our student posters.</p>
<p>The World According to Garp - First part set in boarding school and is somewhat autobiographical as John Irving went to Exeter and his mother worked there. Oh - he also wrestled.</p>
<p>A World of Our Own - About Choate in the late 60's. A mediocre book that is somewhat dated and also pretty negative.</p>
<p>Death Be Not Proud - About a kid a Deerfield with cancer. Be sure to have lots of kleenex within reach.</p>
<p>Grotties Don't Kiss - Supposedly non-fiction. Set in Groton of the 1940's (yeah, it's really dated). Of personal interest because the author was a classmate of my uncle, who makes a brief appearance in the book.</p>
<p>The Rector of Justin - Also about Groton, I think. This is only partially about boarding school and will probably be pretty slow going for some of our younger readers. Also very dated. This used to be a classic, but has become pretty obscure over the years. </p>
<p>The Winslow Boy - This is actually a play, and it's about a boy going to boarding school, but has very little to do with boarding school. Nonetheless it's a good read.</p>
<p>Oh, and for those of you with access to netflicks, rent "If". But don't tell your parents I recommended this movie.</p>
<p>Jaja yea I know I'm terrible, but in the end I got it done only to find out it wasn't due that day... And thanks prpdd, that's a really good list.</p>
<p>John Irving's son is currently a student at NMH.
And for a true story....Murder at Mount Hermon: The Unsolved Killing of Headmaster Elliott Speer by Mount Hermon alumnus Craig Walley
I haven't read it, but I would like to.</p>
<p>Ordinary people--movie with Mary Tyler Moore</p>