The School for Dangerous Girls

Angela is a young girl who is being held responsible for the death of her grandfather, even though she didn't directly cause it. As punishment, her parents send her to an exclusive girl's school, a school which is a 'last chance' for troubled adolescents.

It's also a school which is run almost viciously, dividing the girls into two groups; those who are worth working with, and those the school considers aren't. The types of mental games the staff uses, and the physical things done to the girls, would definitely violate the Geneva Convention. They might even qualify as atrocities.

It's a fascinating story of desperate girls held in a what is nearly a prison, basically playthings (not sexual, though) of the staff. Angela has to try to survive in such a situation, and she manages to make some friends, and she makes some enemies.

The situation gets much, much worse for her when she is put in with the 'not-worth-saving' group of girls. She has to survive that, and the in-fighting among that group. She is determined, though, to go free and to bring down the mockery of a school that they attend.

Very good book, especially from the viewpoint of their use of mind games and Gitmo-like torture.

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