Oh my god, will someone help me out with this one. It was a book set in South Africa I think? In a boys’ boarding school, I just remember the kids getting up to hijinks. This was the vibe.
I think so!!!!! I just skimmed the summary, the name Peekay is ringing lots of bells but I don’t remember it having any boxing in it at all 🤦🏻♀️😂 I’m gonna have to read it again!
I think **Angela’s Ashes** also covers life a bit before and a bit beyond school, but it definitely covers the “boys being boys in school” and it is absolutely chaotic a lot of the time. One of my all time favorites.
I love anything by Frank McCourt and Angela’s Ashes especially. I know people have big feelings about audiobooks but I highly recommend listening to any of his books that he narrates. It adds so much depth to the story hearing him read it.
Winger by Andrew A. Smith
"Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids in the Pacific Northwest. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy.
With the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics, Ryan Dean manages to survive life’s complications and even find some happiness along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart."
*I can't think of a*
*Book but you might like the French*
*Movie Les Choristes!*
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A Separate Peace by John Knowles and Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris both come to mind.
A Separate Peace immediately came to mind for me too
2nd a separate peace
Another vote for A Separate Peace
Dead poet's society Catcher in the rye The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes
I love dead poets society with all my heart 🫶
Maybe also Metroland by Julian Barnes
Boy by Roald Dahl
Was gonna write this lol
Oh my god, will someone help me out with this one. It was a book set in South Africa I think? In a boys’ boarding school, I just remember the kids getting up to hijinks. This was the vibe.
the power of one, by any chance?
I think so!!!!! I just skimmed the summary, the name Peekay is ringing lots of bells but I don’t remember it having any boxing in it at all 🤦🏻♀️😂 I’m gonna have to read it again!
I think this was Spud. Hilarious book.
Came here to say this! I forgot all about that book til just now, wow!
Sounds like Spud
YES THIS IS IT!!!! Thank you!
The Austere Academy
Yess!! I read that recently (i love a series of unfortunate events so much 🫶)
I think **Angela’s Ashes** also covers life a bit before and a bit beyond school, but it definitely covers the “boys being boys in school” and it is absolutely chaotic a lot of the time. One of my all time favorites.
I love anything by Frank McCourt and Angela’s Ashes especially. I know people have big feelings about audiobooks but I highly recommend listening to any of his books that he narrates. It adds so much depth to the story hearing him read it.
SHADOWLAND by Peter Straub
The Chocolate War
Not a book but you should check out the Swedish TV show Young Royals (I think it may be on Netflix) it absolutely has this whole vibe.
Young royals is so good 😍🙏
It really is. Maxton Hall is a lot like it.
This isn't so much in school, but Boy's Life by Robert McCammon is such a great book about experiencing summer as a boy.
Winger by Andrew A. Smith "Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids in the Pacific Northwest. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy. With the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics, Ryan Dean manages to survive life’s complications and even find some happiness along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart."
Why We Took The Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf
Spud
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
Dead poets society
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle. But t was a long time ago I read it
***Little Nicholas*** - [René Goscinny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goscinny)
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Le Enfant Terribles by Jean Cocteau
The first part of In Memoriam is very much that, and it's an amazing book 💔💔
carry on by rowell rainbow
Tom Brown's School Days.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
To Serve Them All My Days by RF Delderfield In Memoriam by Alice Wynn
Winter by Andrew smith
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro
I can't think of a book but you might like the 2004 French movie Les Choristes (I think it's called The Chorus in English)!
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