- Friendship in fiction, Schools in fiction, Boarding schools in fiction, Boarding schools
Phillipa Hunter, or Flip, doesn't think she'll ever fit in at the Swiss boarding school. Besides still aching after her mother's death and being homesick for her father and Connecticut, she isn't sophisticated like the other girls, and discussions about boys leave her tongue-tied.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Madeleine L'Engle
- First published
- 1949
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co, Delacorte Press, lothrop, lee & shepard co., inc.
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440902294
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