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April 15, 2009
THE SCHOOL FOR DANGEROUS GIRLS by Eliot Schrefer
After the unfortunate death of her grandfather and her involvement with an older guy, fifteen year old Angela is sent to Hidden Oaks, a reform school for troubled girls. For the first month she is there, Angela is allowed no contact with the outside world and cannot keep any belongings from her life on the outside.
Although the horrible treatment inflicted on the girls is designed to keep them from forming bonds with each other, Angela befriends several other “bad girls” and together they try to figure out what is really going on at Hidden Oaks. Just as they begin to figure things out, girls start disappearing from the school. It is only after Angela herself disappears that she realizes what is happening: The well behaved girls get sent to another building to attend classes and charm school while the more difficult girls remain behind.
Angela finds that the girls are treated much better in the main building as long as they follow the strict rules, but she is not about to stop her search for the truth, especially when she hears mysterious tapping sounds behind the walls and a note from one of the missing girls appears for her through a vent in the wall. Angela will not stop until the truth is revealed even if it means putting herself in grave danger.
I recommend The School for Dangerous Girls to high school girls.
Ms. Cea
YA Librarian
Posted by fjacksonem at April 15, 2009 9:07 AM