The School For Dangerous Girls

The School For Dangerous Girls

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Girl, Interrupted . . . as written by V. C. Andrews.

Angela's parents think she's on the road to ruin because she's dating a "bad boy." After her behavior gets too much for them, they ship her off to Hidden Oak. Isolated and isolating, Hidden Oak promises to rehabilitate "dangerous girls." But as Angela gets drawn in further and further, she discovers that recovery is only...more
Hardcover, 341 pages
Published March 1st 2009 by Scholastic Press
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Eliora Vespera
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"She blamed me. And now, I was going to get punished."

Angela Cardenas isn't your typical teenager who just get in some troubles in her life. Her whole life basically defines trouble.

The School for Dangerous Girls by Eliot Schrefer is about Hidden Oak Academy for Dangerous Girls. Schrefer gives the glimpses of events that lead Angela to be enrolled in Hidden Oak.

All the Hidden Oak Academy girls did something bad enough for their parents/guardians to give consent t...more
Rachael
Hidden oak is a reform school for dangerous girls. But even if it was founded with good intentions, its methods are questionable, as Angela Cardenas discovers within hours of arriving at the isolated campus. The school is structured like a jail, intended to keep the “dangerous” girls in and intruders out. Physical punishment and strange psychological exercises are commonplace. No one really knows what’s going on, but it soon becomes apparent that there is no escape from Hidden Oak. And even if s...more
Cathy
ugh. while the stories of the girls themselves were intriguing, the whole "bad girls, evil teachers, absent parents" thing has been done to death, and better, many times. Who can believe the school can get way with such violent treatment of underage girls- that no parent ever comes to visit- that once released, no one has ever tried to have the school closed? And why are all these tales set in remote area in the dead of winter?
Tessa
Loved this book!!
Karyn
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Jennifer Wardrip
Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com

I must state at the beginning that I try to avoid reading other reviews of a book before I am able to give them a proper reading myself. However, with THE SCHOOL FOR DANGEROUS GIRLS, I glanced at some reviews posted on Amazon. Having read the mixed reviews, I went into this book with a bit of hesitancy. However, I am pleased to say that I totally disagree with the majority of the reviews that I found. From early on in the book, I was drawn into the intrigue...more
Ambrosia
I picked this one up entirely because of the cover. It's not like my expectations were high, exactly, but with a title and typeface and cover picture like that, it would have gone completely against my interests not to at least have a look.

I'm pleased to report that it actually exceeded my expectations by a significant degree. Definitely guilty-pleasure fare, but decently written, well-paced, and downright compelling in places. The only bits that really jolted me out of the story were the eye-ro...more
Nenia Campbell
You know girls like them. They're the girls everyone likes to gossip about - the girls who steal, the girls who score STD positive, the girls who sleep around with older men, who do drugs and drink; they're the girls who everyone loves to hate, who make their parents cry . . . And they're trapped in a school that intends to break them. Or kill them.

I wanted to read School for Dangerous Girls because of the title alone. When I marked it as 'currently-reading,' I was kind of shocked by the lame co...more
Paula  Phillips
Are you a fan of boarding school novels ? How about reform schools , can you stomach their teachings and ways of punishment ? If so , then this is the book for you. I loved it too bits as I have always been a fan of these type of novels. The School for Dangerous Girls is known as Hidden Oaks - it is a reform school for girls who have been considered a danger to society. In this novel we meet the main character Angela, who has been sent to Hidden Oaks as her parents believe that she may have kill...more
Erin
The School For Dangerous Girls is a book that knows how to draw you into the story from the first page, I found the way that they introduced the school first and then dove into Angela's story a nice touch. Instead of the reader starting the book and watching her get into the school the book starts with her starting at the school and then we learned how she was placed in the school.

The Stories use of the adult characters being corrupt had been done before but the author was able to twist the stor...more
Rachel
I got a free copy of this a couple years ago and forgot about it until today. I thought it would be a Gallagher Girls type book, but it isn't.

It's the story of a 15 year old girl who lies, steals, drinks, dopes, etc. Her parents first send her to live with her grandfather. His death looks as if it is her fault and so her parents send her to a special school for especially screwed-up kids in Colorado. But the school is more about abusing and torturing the kids than helping them. The heroine must...more
Denise
3.0 out of 5 stars Yawn....., October 13, 2008

This review is from: School For Dangerous Girls (Hardcover) YA FICTION

I was actually the second reader of this book in my house. My 18-year-old daughter grabbed this book first - I think she was lured to pick it up by memories of Catholic school when seeing the plaid skirt and white blouse on the cover. She didn't tell me much after she finished, just that it had started out with a good idea, but was disappointing after a few chapters. She thought i...more
Nyasa
This book is about how a girl named Angela who gets sent to a boarding school for dangerous girls called Heath Academy. There she learns the true meaning of discipline. The girls are being watched 24/7 it's a dog eat dog world in the school. No one is safe, as Angela and her friends do everything they can to escape and show the world what Heath Academy realy is they face challegs of survival, boys, and frindship.
I think ths is a text-to-text connection to a story I read called The Boot Camp Fo...more
Runa
Jun 19, 2009 Runa added it
When I first heard of this book and saw it making the rounds through the book blogs, I seriously thought it was yet another Twilight ripoff, with your cast of supernatural girls at school or something. Wow, was I wrong. The School for Dangerous Girls is unlike anything you've ever read and probably ever will read. It's set in an entirely new and unique place, despite the fact that it is at first glance, a teen boarding school, but it's so so much more. Even more astounding than all this is that...more
Lily Benan
The School for Dangerous Girls, by Eliot Schreffer, is about girls who go to a school called Hidden Oak, a school meant to make 'dangerous girls' presentable to society.
Angela Cardenas is a teenage girl who has, as a last resort, been sent to Hidden Oak School for Girls, after supposedly murdering her grandfather. When she arrives, the administrators strip her of her clothes, of her make-up, of her... pretty much everything. The put her into a 'school'. But its more like a prison; they beat the...more
Lauren
The School for Dangerous Girls starts out like your average boarding school novel; bad girl gets sent to a secluded school surrounded by woods by her parents, girl becomes friends with her roommate, there's that one girl who always irks the main character, and there's the helpful counselor. In this book, the main character is Angela Cardenas, a girl who is sent to Hidden Oak because she is accused of killing her grandfather. She instantly befriends Carmen, who is her equally innocent roommate. S...more
Courtney
for the first few chapters, one doesn't really know where this story is going to lead. is it going to be a "problem" novel? supernatural? what's up with this school? after awhile, one realizes that it's really just an intriguing story about a school with some serious problems. what really makes this book work is the examination of teenage girl dynamics. in a sense, most girls could be considered "dangerous" and just about anyone could see themselves winding up in this school if the circumstances...more
Meagan
Jul 10, 2009 Meagan rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: ya
Deep in the wooded mountains of Colorado, completely isolated from the rest of the world in winter, lies the Hidden Oak boarding school for girls. Hidden Oak is made up of the remains of an exclusive boarding school that experienced a tragedy and had to close down, and now its buildings are dilapidated, cold, and forbidding. This comfortless place is the last chance for some of the country's most dangerous girls. The girls who end up at Hidden Oak are facing jail as their only alternative. Angel...more
Tracie
A young girl gets sent to a boarding reform school when her parents feel she is out of control. Because the school is a last resort for girls who have pushed beyond the boundaries, no one believes the few tales of abuse and dangerous neglect any of the girls manage to send. Too many of the characters were cardboard figures to really give much depth to this story, but the fast pace does keep the pages turning for the most part.
Megan
The book started out good. Unfortunately, it didn't wrap up very well. It was hard to understand the motivation for the adults bad behavior. The majority of the teachers were simply evil ~ I'm talking Professor Snape evil. Professor Umbridge evil. With no explaination as to why. That took away from the realism of the story.

Even more baffling was the behavior of Mr.Darrien ~ the one "good" teacher. He appeared to be sympathetic to the girls, but explained he was reluctant to rock the boat with t...more
Delaney
That's it?! Holy potatoes with cheese and bacon! And I thought there would be a little kissing scene. I guess it wouldn't fit anywhere. But, ehh, ehh? Boo, disappointed--just a tad. *_* XD

Anyways. This book is pretty awesome. There is a school called Hidden Oak for "dangerous" girls. Those girls get sent there by their parents because their parents can't handle them anymore and pretty much a last resort for them. But inside Hidden Oak is so much more than fixing the girls. Oh ho--it's way more t...more
Jahaira Romero
The book is about angela cardenas a girl about my age(17) her parents sent her to a very serious school because her parents think that she killed her grandpa. when angela gets there she first met a girl name carmen. and they become friends. While the time went by, angela was sent to the gold thread too and when she went to her biology class she sees carmen and then she apologized for what happen the night that she got cought. then since the gold thread have more benefits than the purple thread...more
Jessica
Angela has always been a troublemaker, but a serious incident causes her parents to put her into a school for, well, dangerous girls. A private school in the mountains of Colorado, Hidden Oak has a mysterious past and keeps most of its methods secret. Girls are divided into "gold thread" (good girls that show promise of being rehabilitated) and "purple thread" (lost causes). Angela walks the line, but is eventually put into the gold thread. Eventually after a lot of digging she finds out exactly...more
Audrey Wilkerson
Ink and Page's Quick & Dirty Review

Rating : 3

Best Thang ‘Bout It : This school is creepy, but not in a slasher film kind of way. It's the isolation - from the closest town, from parents, because of snow, no phones no cars no internet. It was a great idea for a book.

I’m Cranky Because : I liked the book, but I didn't like like it. It's exciting and dramatic, but I think I needed more depth from the characters. The ending - well, I guess I can't go into that here, but it left me a little unsa...more
Eliza Brittni
Mar 25, 2009 Eliza Brittni rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: girls mostly but can be for boys as well
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Miki Garrison
I essentially enjoyed this book while I was reading it, but felt pretty "bleh" about it afterwards, so I don't know that it's a book I'd recommend to a friend.

This is a book that had a tremendous amount of potential -- some great characters, and some truly awesome suspense building moments. Where the book falls through is in not delivering on that suspense. The author rushes through what should be the big "ah hah!" moments, or the big action climaxes, or worse yet, has them happen "off-screen"...more
Kendra
this book is 341 pages and i finished it in 4 days. I'm not the type to finish a book very qucikly; especially a big book. But this novel is OUTSTANDING.

I was never bored reading it because it always kept me at the edge of my seat.

amazing.

amazing.

amazing.

It is my new favorite book and i wish it didn't end. There are still questions i have; but a good book always leaves you with some questions even after your done.

This book deserves to be a best-seller but i exept a ton of other non-famous book...more
Brielle.h
I thought this book was on of the best books I've read in a long time. It's defiantly my type of book. With every chapter, I just wanted to read more and more. It was thought out very well by the author from intro to the very end. Since they told the story in first person point of view, it was alot more tense and emotional for the reader to experience. To actually feel and think like she had to just made it more intense with every page. At first you thought the school was going to be great for A...more
Kat
Angela Cardenas is a "dangerous" girl with a track record of bad teen behavior, so she gets shipped off to the remote Hidden Oaks boarding school to join the other "dangerous" girls in need of reform. However, of course, we quickly discover that this school has various layers of corruption, scandal, and torture. Angela is a fighter, so she's determined to stay true to herself and escape while also exposing the school's dark secrets. She picks up some friends along the way, like sweet naive Carme...more
Edith Hope Bishop
I went to college with Eliot Schrefer, so let me start by saying that I am likely biased. That said, I had immense fun with this book and I'm certain that MANY of my students would enjoy it.

I think my favorite aspect of the book was that it succeeded in having me question, again and again, whether or not the teachers and administrators of Hidden Oak had good intentions, despite their horrible methods. I found myself disgusted by my own willingness to give them some credit, to forgive them in an...more
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I write books and then, by an astounding stroke of good fortune, someone publishes them. My first two books, Glamorous Disasters and The New Kid, were for adults, and then I had a momentous lunch with author/editor David Levithan when I became a young adult author.

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