Le Pensionnat des Jeunes Filles Sages
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782207114155
Publish date: June 6th 2013
Publisher: Denoël
Pages no: 512
Edition language: French
The Yonaholosee Riding Camp for Girls Paperback, 432 pages Riverhead Trade, June 3, 2014 (first published June 6, 2013) Thea Atwell, 15, has been sent from her family home in Florida to attend a girls boarding school for the southern elite, one at which she will learn to become an accomplished h...
The Plot: 15-year-old Thea Atwell is sent away from her beloved childhood home to the Yonahlossee Riding Camp of the title - a summer camp for wealthy Southern debutantes and a year-round school for troubled wealthy Southern debutantes. The "terrible sin" for which she was sent away is unravelled th...
This one hooked me from the start. Thea is flawed and hurt and I rooted for her from page one. Riveting.
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is the coming-of-age story of Thea Atwell - and it is unlike any other such story I've ever read (and I've read quite a few!). Thea lives in Florida during the Great Depression, and she is sent away for an as yet unknown indiscretion to the Yonahlossee Riding Ca...
i wanted to like this one so much more than I ended up...more of a review to follow