Showing posts with label private schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label private schools. Show all posts

Thursday, June 4, 2026

I Have Some Questions For You

 Fiction by Rebecca Makai

In 1995, Bodie Kane was a senior at Granby School, a posh New Hampshire academy for wealth adolescents. Bodie had always felt like an outsider at Granby, because she was not a rich kid; she was a charity case with a tragic family backstory she kept hidden as much as possible. 

Then her former roommate Thalia was murdered near the end of the school year. A suspect was caught and convicted quickly, but doubts about his guilt persisted after his incarceration, especially when Dateline did a special on the case ten years later. Online speculation about the murder persisted for many years.

Now it's 2018 and Bodie is a podcaster. She has been invited to come back to Granby and teach a two-week course, and she thinks maybe now is the time to look into Thalia's murder for real. Since she's always felt she's too close to the case to do a podcast on it herself, Bodie manipulates a student to take on the subject. Will they uncover the truth?

This book had an interesting premise and some decent characters but it was way too long and slow. It did pick up during the last third of the book.

Thursday, May 8, 2025

All the Other Mothers Hate Me

 Fiction by Sarah Harmon


Florence is a single mother who doesn't really fit in with the other moms at her son Dylan's fancy private school. She used to be in a girl band, but now she just does odd jobs and lives on child support from her ex-husband. But when another boy in Dylan's class is kidnapped on a field trip, Florence is determined to find out what happened, mostly because she is worried that Dylan may get blamed.

This was a really fun story with a surprise ending.


Thursday, September 5, 2024

What You Wish For

 Fiction by Katherine Center


Samantha is a librarian at a private elementary school in Galveston, Texas, where she moved several years ago from a school in California. Since she's been in Texas, Samantha has begun to flourish in way she never has before, and she feels like life is good. She only vaguely remembers Duncan, the man she nursed an overwhelming crush for, and the reason she fled California. And maybe she might wish to see him again. But then, Duncan comes to her school in Texas....

This was a fun little straight romance.


I also read recently by this author: Hello Stranger

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Her Pretty Face

Fiction by Robyn Harding,

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

At Forrester Academy, a fancy private school in the Pacific Northwest, two boys who are new to sixth grade become friends, drawing their mothers together as well. Frances's son Marcus is a slightly awkward child, and she's grateful he's found a calming influence in Kate's son Charles. It seems an added bonus for Frances that Kate is such an easy and fun person, a cool mom who is so cool she doesn't even care what the other moms think. The two women become fast friends.

But both Frances and Kate have something to hide.....

This was a great novel, both a good character story and a page-turner.


I also read recently by this author: The Party

Saturday, October 24, 2015

The Secret Place

Fiction by Tana French.

The Secret Place
http://www.barnesandnoble.com

Set in a private school in Dublin, this was an interesting mystery. It was a little slower-moving than I prefer, but still good.


I also read by this author: In the Woods.