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Summary: In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the time she's a senior, Lee has found her place at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her hard-won identity within the community is shattered. Lee's experiences, complicated relationships with teachers, intense and sometimes rancorous friendships with other girls, an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush, are both a psychologically astute portrait of one girl's coming-of-age and an embodiment of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.

Record details

ISBN: 9781588364500 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 158836450X (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 9781588364500 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
ISBN: 158836450X (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
Physical Description: electronic
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406 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : Random House, c2005.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Thieves -- All school rules are in effect -- Assassin -- Cipher -- Parents' weekend -- Townie -- Spring-cleaning -- Kissing and kissing.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. New York : Random House Publishing Group, 2005. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1521 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 381 KB).