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...novel follows Lee Fiora, a thoughtful and observant 14-year-old, as she traverses through the social hierarchies and bureaucratic pyramids of the fictional Ault School in Massachusetts...

Author: By Kathleen A. Fedornak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bestseller: Prep | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

What’s noteworthy about Lee is that she enters this world of bow-ties and rowing regattas ignorantly, having grown up in South Bend, Indiana and only learning of Ault through a publicity brochure. Her whimsical decision to study at Ault leads her on a “Wizard of Oz” type odyssey—one in which her Glenda never materializes and she, as Dorothy, must learn to single-handedly fight through heightened teenage trials...

Author: By Kathleen A. Fedornak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bestseller: Prep | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...adolescent angst as palpable and consistently believable, while guiding the reader through the colorful insight of a character who might be otherwise pegged as an awkward outsider. She wonders why she is no longer the confident 13-year-old she was in South Bend. Why has she allowed Ault to change her? She worries what her working-class parents will think when they see her acting so differently...

Author: By Kathleen A. Fedornak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bestseller: Prep | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...characters of “Prep,” life does not exists in simplistic black and white type. Ault is not the villain. Lee is not a perfectly righteous heroine. Rather, the story is one of universal experience and collective evolution—filled with mistakes, ridicule, and eventual peace with oneself and others...

Author: By Kathleen A. Fedornak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bestseller: Prep | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...Some of Ault's students have later played very important roles for him personally...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Visiting Chemistry Professor Aims to Reach Out to Students | 10/21/1997 | See Source »

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