Sentence examples for school fiction from inspiring English sources

In the school fiction of yesteryear, "scrumping" was what schoolboys, primarily, did in orchards.

Young Peregrine has a predilection for practical jokes (the violent pranks of English boarding school fiction have their origins here).

We realized that our students read a great deal, but chiefly the typical high school fiction selections like "The Canterbury Tales," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Things Fall Apart".

Until 1997, that is, when JK Rowling, the comprehensive-educated girl who had grown up with a passion for boarding school fiction, sat down to reimagine Brazil's universe for a new generation of girls – and boys.

And while Brazil is barely read now, and her 49 books have not been reissued in those clunky liveries that you see on new editions of Malory Towers and Chalet School titles, hers is still the name that stands as shorthand for the entire genre of boarding school fiction.

I wrote the requisite bad-girl high school fiction, along with the requisite sad-girl high school poetry.

Prep-school fictions tend toward the nostalgic; this one, though set in the late seventies, feels up to date, reversing a lot of storied conventions, among them the trope of WASP — as opposed to Asian or Jewish — primacy.

CM: We met in graduate school for fiction writing.

Enough, perhaps, of the Catholic school of fiction.

His novels, similarly, are often attributed to the "muscular" school of fiction.

Unless you are going to Hogwarts – which is definitely the most popular school in fiction.