Cathalina at Greycliff

"Cathalina at Greycliff" by Harriet Pyne Grove is a story about a fourteen-year-old girl named Cathalina Van Buskirk as she begins a new life at Greycliff school. The book focuses on Cathalina's life at Greycliff, exploring themes of growing up, getting used to new places, encountering the challenges of youth, and navigating friendships. Cathalina is presented as a thoughtful girl who is recovering from being sick and is not completely happy with her current comfortable life. As she goes to boarding school, she feels both thrilled and worried, and struggles with missing home as well as trying to create friendships. Her friendship with her roommate, Hilary Lancaster, plays a big role as they both journey through school and the challenges that come with it.