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The secret life of a boarding school brat

by Amy Gordon

Historical Fiction

2004

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.

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