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Carmen Reid
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Publisher | Corgi | ||
ISBN | 9780552557061 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
Gina's mother is fed up with her staying out late, spending too much money on clothes and too much time IM-ing her friends. But her solution to sort out her wayward LA IT girl is pretty drastic - she's sending Gina to Scotland to go to the same boarding school she attended. Suddenly taken from a world of malls, mobile phones, en-suite wet-rooms, designer clothes and sophisticated boys, Gina is suddenly forced to find her way through games of hockey, communal meals and showers, horrible public schoolboys and stuffy housemistresses. Will she ever survive? Her dorm buddies might just help - they're a strange bunch but they seem to be good fun ...And there are always the boys from the local school to help keep them entertained.
Review
This is the first book I have read by Carmen Reid who writes in a delightful way. She allows the reader to really experience what the young people at St Jude's go through everyday of their lives.
In typical boarding school way we see the girls saying they have been to cinema to see a film when they have been hanging out in the local cafe. The new girl has been sent over to the school to try and get her grades up and be a straight 'A' student like her mother, but she discovers that her mother had been removed from the school, but finds out on asking that she did return to get straight 'A's at a later date.
I think this is a really up to date version of the old Chalet school books of the 60's and 70's. Well done a great story for all the teenagers out there
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