Boarding School Bastard 3

No more abusive governesses threatening to withhold meals. Or pedophile housemasters creeping around the dormitory at night, or paddling you at will.

Yes, things would be better when 12-year-old Alan got to high school at Girard College, the orphanage for fatherless boys. That's what he thought, until:

• A pair of upperclassmen threated to beat him senseless on his first day
• His new principal revealed a personal vendetta against Alan
• His closest friends became sadistic bullies
• He found out a girl he had a crush on had befriended his mother

Boarding School Bastard 3 follows a boy through his high school years behind the walls of Girard College, the famous segregated school for fatherless boys in the Sixties. How does the school's "white males only" policy affect the black neighbors around it? Will Alan survive upperclassman abuse and hazing? Will he graduate before Principal Gruder can find a reason to expel him? Does Alan even want to graduate, or will he succumb to the siren calls of drugs and rock and roll?

Leavening the tragedy with humor, the Boarding School Bastard series reveals a world we'd prefer to avoid but is too riveting to ignore. This is the final book in the trilogy.

PRAISE FOR BOARDING SCHOOL BASTARD

"Sharavsky has dug deep for this gripping and emotional memoir, exposing a childhood sure to leave as big a mark on the reader as it did on the writer. Unforgettable."
Jon Clinch, author of "Finn" and "Marley"

"Sharavsky's experiences, as depicted in this moving book, provide an important lens into the loneliness and fear felt by children who feel vulnerable and unprotected. Boarding School Bastard eloquently portrays the trauma experienced by victims and witnesses to child abuse."
Debra Schilling Wolfe, MEd, Executive Director, University of Pennsylvania
Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice and Research

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