The Other New Girl

A Novel

LB Gschwandtner

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631523076
• Subtopic: Literature General

During her first week at coed Quaker prep Foxhall School, sassy Susannah Greenwood, one of two girls who've entered as sophomores, gets pulled into the cool girls' clique. While the school is instructing her in the moral and ethical tenets of the Quaker faith, the cool girls allow her to enter their world beyond the rule book—but in trying to find a balance between idealistic faith and the reality of a competitive system, Susannah runs afoul of the school's most authoritarian dean and befriends the only other new sophomore, a brainy, socially inept outcast. Then her new friend runs away after being shamed by the dean, and Susannah finds herself caught between the two forces of loyalty and authority: Should she cooperate with the unforgiving, and now vulnerable, dean, who, with her job on the line, is pleading for information from her about her runaway friend? Or should she keep the secret she's sworn to protect?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Prologue
• One: Hello Again
• Two: The Makeup Room
• Three: Margaret Bleaker
• Four: Study Hall
• Five: Whatever Happened to Daria?
• Six: Moll
• Seven: French Braids
• Eight: Another Chore
• Nine: Secrets
• Ten: The Nipple Pool
• Eleven: Daria’s Life
• Twelve: Falling in Love (or something like it)
• Thirteen: The Dance
• Fourteen: Advice About Boys
• Fifteen: The Trestle
• Sixteen: Talking Past Each Other
• Seventeen: My Mother’s Not Like Other Mothers
• Eighteen: The Last Dance
• Nineteen: Greenwood’s Confession
• Twenty: The Car Ride
• Twenty-One: Ladling at the Soup Kitchen
• Twenty-Two: Talk of Politics
• Twenty-Three: The Kindness of Bearer
• Twenty-Four: A Small Packet of Kindness
• Twenty-Five: Eyeliner and Lipstick
• Twenty-Six: If the Key Fits
• Twenty-Seven: Disappearances Can Be Deceiving
• Twenty-Eight: Where’s Moll?
• Twenty-Nine: A Search for the Missing
• Thirty: Gone
• Thirty-One: The Note
• Thirty-Two: Sixteen Days Left
• Thirty-Three: The City Never Sleeps
• Thirty-Four: Fighting with Myself
• Thirty-Five: Right and Wrong
• Thirty-Six: The Last Call
• Thirty-Seven: Bleaker
• Thirty-Eight: A Visit from Wes
• Thirty-Nine: By the Book
• Forty: Meeting for Worship
• Forty-One: Christmas Break
• Reader and Book Club Discussion Guide
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Books by LB Gschwandtner