Roommate - Girls of Canby Hall, Bk 1 Author:Emily Chase Dana, Faith and Shelley, all new to Canby Hall in their sophomore year, end up as roommates-and get off to the worst possible start. They're so different they practically hate each other! But slowly they grow to understand and care about one another and to help each other-through Dana's disastrous first love, Faith's trouble with the... more » headmistress and Shelley's desperate homesickness.« less
This was a fun read, albeit formulaic. I remembered loving it as an adolescent and wanted to reread. It still has the power to make me wish I'd gone to boarding school. The characters are distinct, and surprisingly, not very stereotypical.