num_pages: 342
description: Prestigious. Powerful. Privileged. This is Fullbrook Academy an elite prep school where history looms in the leafy branches over its brick walkways. But some traditions upheld in its hallowed halls are profoundly dangerous.Jules Devereux just wants to keep her head down avoid distractions and get into the right college so she can leave Fullbrook and its old-boy social codes behind. She wants freedom but ex-boyfriends and ex-best friends are determined to keep her in place.Jamie Baxter feels like an imposter at Fullbrook but the hockey scholarship that got him in has given him a chance to escape his past and fulfill the dreams of his parents and coaches whose mantra rings in his ears: Dont disappoint us.When Jamie and Jules meet they recognize in each other a similar instinct for survival but at a school where girls in the student handbook are rated by their looks athletes stack hockey pucks in dorm room windows like notches on a bedpost and school-sponsored dances push first year girls out into the night with senior boys the stakes for safe sex real love and true friendship couldnt be higher.As Jules and Jamies lives intertwine and the pressures to play by the rules and remain silent about the schools secrets intensify they see Fullbrook for what it really is. That tradition a word Fullbrook hides behind can be ugly even violent. Ultimately Jules and Jamie are faced with the difficult question: can they stand together against classmatesand an institutionwho believe they can do no wrong?
language: English
title: Tradition
publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books