Boarding school girls in space

[badgerbag]

Where are all the science fiction boarding school books? I can think of a few "girl on her own" books with plucky, lone heroes, like Wednesday from that Charlie Stross book or the not-quite-Starfleet anthropology cadet from "Enchantress From the Stars". But where are the boarding school books in space, where girls interact socially with each other, have their own power politics and friendships and set their own ideas of what's important?

Are there any?

If not, we should be writing some.

Comments

[sara]

There's that short story by Connie Willis, but that's more anti-boarding school than pro.

[the_future_modernes]

Someone needs to be getting on that stat, cause i would read that like WOAH!!!

[rivenwanderer]

Gunnerkrigg Court takes place in a boarding school and has a girl-centered cast, and it's about 75% fantasy, 25% sci-fi (I would say) and very good. It's a webcomic rather than a YA book, though.

[ar]

It's not sci-fi, but I'd like to put forth Princess Academy as another possible example in the fantasy genre. It's a really charming little book.

[rachelmanija]

YES! I'd buy it.

[gramina]

It's not a *girl's* school, and a number of the novels are set off-site, so to speak, but the Starbridge books (AC Crispin) do have a boarding school...