Teaching, learning, and the meaning of education are on everyone's mind this month. So much MG and YA fiction is set in--or comments on--school that it's tricky to define a "back-to-school" themed reading list. And, of course, there are some educated wizards and summer-camp Olympians that are kind of their own NYT-best-selling genres. That said, here are a few of my favorite boarding school tales (old and new):
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| (Frances Hodgson Burnett's ultimate orphan-versus-mean-boarding-school-headmistress story) |
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| (The first in Ally Carter's fun Gallagher Girls series about a secret boarding school for she-spies-in-training) |
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| (Lauren Baratz-Logsted's historical fiction in which Bet disguises herself as a boy to get an education--with romance!) |
