Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student
Oliver Optic · 1867
An 1867 juvenile novel by Oliver Optic in which fourteen-year-old student Ernest Thornton, unjustly punished by the tyrannical principal of the Parkville Liberal Institute, is expelled and later leads his fellow students in a rebellion and a "breaking away" from the school.
Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.
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