Looking for a Y/A book written in the 70/80″s about a girl who finally convinces her parents to let her go to an all-girls boarding school. I could have sworn it was written by Judy Blume but apparently not. Same type of style, though. She goes off to boarding school ( she mentions in the very beginning that her grandmother helped convince her parents to let her go). The book opens with the 1st person narrator describing her new uniforms and all her stuff being ready for the trip to the boarding school. The opening sentence is something very like, “Well, I’m finally doing it. Going to Boarding school”
She rooms with 3 other girls, I believe, one of whom is very well off. One sentence I particularly remember refers to her first tour around the school, led by a student. “She looked like she cut her hair with a razor and a ruler”. The tour proceeds up some stairs and the narrator says, ” ‘So that’s what threadbare means,’ I thought”.
I believe the book must have been written in the late 70’s or early 80’s because that’s when I read it. Suggestion from Lost Classics reader Julie W.: They’ll Never Make a Movie Starring Me by Alice Bach.
Second suggestion from Lost Classics reader Isis: The Girls of Canby Hall-Roommates by Emily Chase.
Third Suggestion from Lost Classics Reader Rebecca: The Daring Game by Kit Pearson
Lost Classics of Teen Lit: Name That Book! 
Maybe it’s Is That You, Miss Blue? by ME Kerr
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