The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Passionate, free-thinking and uncoventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over the group of 'special girls' at the Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie Set, the 'creme de la creme', each famous for something - Monicafor mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extra-curricular activites that they will never forget.