The secret life of a boarding school brat

By Amy Gordon

Subjects: Divorce, Self-perception, Interpersonal relations, Boarding schools, Diaries, Fiction, History, Schools

Description: In 1965, seventh-grader Lydia, unhappy to be sent to boarding school after her parents' divorce and her father's remarriage, chronicles her experiences, secret feelings, and changing outlook in the diary that her grandmother gave her before she died.