When JFK was my father

By Amy Gordon

Subjects: Boarding schools, fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Parent and child, Self-perception, Family, Boarding schools, Girls, Schools, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Children's fiction, Parent and child, fiction, Schools

Description: Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by imagining relationships with John Kennedy and Miss Beard, the ghost of the former headmistress of the school.