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• Schooling
  Author: McGowan, Heather
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385501382 Date: 2001
  Booklist
  Catrine Evans, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Memories of Isabelle, the best friend she left behind in Maine, give way to dreams haunted by images of an accidental death she believes they caused before she left for England.
  Updated 6/4/01
• Project X
  Author: Shepard, Jim
  Publisher: Knopf $ 20 ISBN: 140004071x Date: 2004
  Kirkus Booklist
  Hanratty and Flake, two junior high school students, feel powerless against their situation at school until they gradually begin flirting with the most horrible revenge of all.
  Updated 1.15.04
• The Finishing School
  Author: Spark, Muriel
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 16.95 ISBN: 0385512821 Date: 2004
  Kirkus PW
  From the author of Aiding and Abetting comes the story of a school master at a vaguely dubious finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and his jealously over a student prodigy with a historical novel already in progress.
  Updated 8.16.04
• Old School
  Author: Wolff, Tobias
  Publisher: Knopf $ 22 ISBN: 0375401466 Date: 2003
  Booklist PW
  The author of the genre-defining memoir This Boy's Life and The Barrack's Thief now presents his first novel about a young boy at New England prep school obsessed with visiting authors.
  Suggested Reading: Fiction & Mystery Debuts | Adult Books for Teens
  Updated 10.14.03