However, no matter how fabulous the high school is–even if, say, Stephen Hawking was teaching the science classes and the Dalai Lama was teaching the religion classes and Bill Gates was teaching the computer science classes and John Green was teaching the literature classes–and how high the students’ GPAs and SAT scores are, no college is going to take more than a handful of students from the same high school. The downside of attending these kinds of elite secondary institutions is that everyone is expecting to attend similarly-elite colleges. Senior year is when it all comes together, all the years of studying and work and projects and sports and campaigns and whatever we’re into that we’ve been working really hard for–it’s either about to pay off or everything is about to completely fall apart. I man, everybody’s always on edge when the semester starts, kind of, except spring semester senior year is like that normal nervousness times a million. The story begins as students are returning from their Christmas break. But I think she does a great job of describing what happens when you mix together the creme de la creme in the same pot. So the book captures the privileged milieu shared by We Were Liars rather than the more average world of, say, The Spectacular Now. Joan’s Academy, outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Rather, Colleen is in her final year of an elite and highly-competitive Catholic girls school, St. The protagonist, Colleen Rowley, is not any kind of modern Everywoman. So if you know anything about my classes, then you would realize I would be all over this book! But besides having a theme that is right down my alley, it is an intelligent, well-written, and engaging story that combines historical non-fiction with a realistic picture of what life can be like for a portion of teenagers today. The gist of this book by New York Times bestseller author Katherine Howe–which happens to be her first foray into YA writing–is a high school senior who uses something she is reading in school to help figure out issues in her real life.
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