Best of
Boarding-School

1995

I Was #87: A Deaf Woman's Ordeal of Misdiagnosis, Institutionalization, and Abuse


Anne M. Bolander - 1995
    So began Anne Bolander's five-year ordeal at an institution for retarded and unwanted children. Emotions were not allowed at the institution, where children were beaten bloody for laughing, crying, or even touching another child. Children lived a robotic existence, and like robots, were known by numbers instead of names. Anne was #87.She endured five years of this abuse before being removed and placed in St. Mary's of Providence Center, where teachers correctly assessed her as deaf, not retarded. After only one year, Anne returned home and there survived many more years of abuse. Her story calls for vigilance today and everyday.

Molly's Heart


Gabrielle Charbonnet - 1995
    When Molly's father, a famous computer genius, leaves for a business trip, the bright, young, immensely rich girl is sent off to a prestigious Boston boarding school.

The Cutmouth Lady


Romy Ashby - 1995
    fiction "cool, pungent perverse gaijin schoolgirl"

A World of Girls: The Appeal of the Girls' School Story


Rosemary Auchmuty - 1995
    Brent-Dyer, Dorita Fairlie Bruce’s Nancy, Springdale and Dimsie stories, and Enid Blyton’s boarding school books, A World of Girls proves conclusively that they provided active role models and positive images for a massive readership of girls and women.

A Little Princess: Film Novelization


Diane Molleson - 1995
    This digest edition ties in with promotions and advertising for the Warner Brothers' movie to be released this summer.