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Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Audio/read - first person narrative of a mid western middle class 13yr old girl applying and getting into a very rich very snobby New England boarding high school,. She was the top of her class and teacher favorite in Indiana, but almost fails out and has no friends at her boarding school. To survive she becomes an observer of the class structure, cliques and social politics. She thinks this keeps her invisible, but what she doesn't realize is that the world around her is watching her as well. The narrator is kind of whiny, very self-absorbed, very judgmental and status speaking. Which is really annoying to read as a 54-year-old woman and yet a pretty accurate depiction of most insecure teenage girls.