The School Four

by Albertus True Dudley

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158 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2009

Reviews

[Bryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the first boys school story I've read, and also the first American one. A lot of it was pretty much what I was expecting -- lots of athletics (mostly football and rowing, in tons of detail), and the usual schoolboy honour code. But to my surprise the adults were not all honourable men, and part of the book was about dealing with deliberate unfairness and there isn't an easy answer -- yes, Mr. Smith loses in the end, but he just loses, he never changes his mind, and nobody expects him to. So that was unexpected and interesting.