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Gr 9 Up—Devastated by the death of her first love, 15-year-old Jam Gallahue is having difficulty moving on with her life. After nearly a year of being mired in grief, her parents send her to a boarding school in rural Vermont that specializes in "emotionally fragile" teens. Once there, she is surprised to have been one of five students selected by the legendary Mrs. Quenell for a class called Special Topics in English. It seems that the entire semester—Mrs. Q's swan song before retirement—will be devoted to the works of Sylvia Plath, and the students are given special red leath...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

After her boyfriend Reeve's death, Jam Gallahue is shipped off to The Wooden Barn, a boarding school for "emotionally fragile, highly intelligent" teens. There she's placed in a widely coveted, extremely selective course called Special Topics in English, one of just five students in the class. Jam doesn't understand why she was chosen, and she isn't especially pumped about the semester's only materials: Sylvia Plath's poems; her autobiographical novel The Bell Jar; and a journal to write in. However, while completing he...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

After her boyfriend's death, Jam is shipped to a boarding school for "emotionally fragile, highly intelligent" teens. She's plac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More