Viola Viola in Reel Life, Book 1, (Paperback)

from readerspeak

With her first novel for young adults, Adriana Trigiani (Big Stone Gap series) introduces her readers to Viola, a Brooklyn girl forced to go to boarding school for a year by her parents who are abroad taping a documentary. She also loves to make movies, and her time at the boarding school soon be...

from ethel55

Sent by her documentary filmmaking parents to a boarding school in Indiana, Viola Chesterton is a budding filmmaker herself. Unhappy at being uprooted from her lively NYC life, she doesn't expect to enjoy or make friends at Prefect Academy. Fortunately for her, Trigiani weaves a sweet, slow tale ...

from BookConcierge

Viola's parents are documentary filmmakers, and a year-long assignment to Afghanistan means that Viola will have to spend her freshman year at an exclusive all-girl boarding school. That's bad enough, but the school - The Perfect Academy - is in South Bend, Indiana, far from her Brooklyn friends ...

from ericajsc

I'm an easy sell when it comes to stories set in a boarding school, and I love filmmaking, so this book was right up my alley. This had ample amounts of both. It took me a while before I felt comfortable with Viola. As the book begins she is very hostile to the idea of boarding school, but there'...

from ethel55

Sent by her documentary filmmaking parents to a boarding school in Indiana, Viola Chesterton is a budding filmmaker herself. Unhappy at being uprooted from her lively NYC life, she doesn't expect to enjoy or make friends at Prefect Academy. Fortunately for her, Trigiani weaves a sweet, slow tale ...