<p>"Perfectly Prep - Gender Extremes at a New England Prep School" - Sarah A. Chase - 2008 - Oxford University Press - 2008 - New York, New York</p>
<p>"Behind the Walls - A Parent's Guide to Boarding Schools" - Timothy D. Hillman - 2003 - Old School Press - Richmond, R.I.</p>
<p>"Second Home - Life in a Boarding School" - Edited by Timothy D. Hillman and Louis M. Crosier -1996 - Avocus Publishing, Inc. - Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>"Healthy Choices, Healthy Schools - The Residential Curriculum" - Edited by Louis M. Crosier -1992 - Avocus Publishing, Inc. - Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>"Casualties of Privilege - Essays on Prep Schools' Hidden Cutlture" - Edited by Louis M. Crosier -1991 - Avocus Publishing, Inc. - Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>I have "Second Home" on my desk right now. I would say it's a good book. Views from teachers, advisers and students. Really helpful insider's guide. I would highly recommend it.</p>
<p>I'm reading perfectly prep. It's interesting, but more about gender roles than boarding school. I also have Preparing for Power. I don't remember who it's by.</p>
<p>Been trying to find that. The author's husband taught Latin at the school and she was a dorm parent, etc. She wrote the book apparantly as a grad student at Brown for her doctural thesis.</p>
<p>I know the author's husband of "Perfectly Prep" and I don't think they want the school where she works revealed. But she has knowledge and experience with many schools. I thought "Behind the Walls" was a good general book.</p>
<p>Maybe so LaxCoach, and I won't post it here, but based on a few things I found online and a quick search on the suspected school's web site...bingo.<br>
I am looking forward to finding a few of these books.</p>
<p>I highly recommend "Behind the Walls." The author attended boarding school, and taught at boarding schools. As an insider, he raises important points of modern boarding school life which parents may not have thought to consider. As useful as CC may be while researching schools, the CC parent population paints boarding school life in a very positive light. There are children for whom the experience does not work out well.</p>
<p>I also recommend "Lessons from Privilege," by Arthur Powell. It treats prep school culture and curriculum in a more scholarly manner, but the author ably outlines a common culture shared by traditional independent schools.</p>
<p>I found "All Loves Excelling" a haunting novel, which any parent who considers sending a child to boarding school should read. The author, Mr. Josiah Bunting, was once Lawrenceville's headmaster. While the plot feels too artful to be drawn directly from life, the situation and characters are informed by an insider's experience.</p>