@article{304723,
      author = {Sittenfeld, Curtis.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/304723},
      title = {Prep : a novel /},
      publisher = {Random House,},
      abstract = {In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty  pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her  middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and  enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in  Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her  classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and  ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores,  although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels  like an outsider. By the time she's a senior, Lee has found  her place at Ault. But when her behavior takes a  self-destructive and highly public turn, her hard-won  identity within the community is shattered. Lee's  experiences, complicated relationships with teachers,  intense and sometimes rancorous friendships with other  girls, an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who  is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush, are both a  psychologically astute portrait of one girl's coming-of-age  and an embodiment of the painful and thrilling adolescence  universal to us all.},
      recid = {304723},
      pages = {406 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2005},
}