Best of
School-Stories

1948

Autumn Term


Antonia Forest - 1948
    Twins Nicola and Lawrie arrive at their new school determined to do even better than their distinguished elder sisters, but things don't turn out quite as planned.

Elizabeth of the Garret Theatre


Gwendoline Courtney - 1948
    Alison was broken hearted that she could not fulfil her dream of keeping house for her father. Elizabeth decided that the new Mrs Verney had somehow trapped her father into marriage. Georgie’s vision was coloured by fairy tales, and even Susan was shaken out of her comfort zone. But Nan had her own weapons which included patience, humour and good cooking and the battle was more than half won before Nigel Gifford, the great Shakespearean actor, arrived on the scene to give the thrill of a lifetime to a family who loved acting above everything.

The Forbidden Holiday


Olive C. Dougan - 1948
    How he and Marie managed to do this, against their father's wishes, and their exciting adventures when the got to Scotland, form a first-rate story with an unusual background.

Roommates


Laura Cooper Rendina - 1948
    She was a smooth blond Sophomore, an outgoing personality who loved to fool around with the gang and be in plays and kid the teachers into believing she aimed to become a writer some day. Debbie came from a large family of brothers and sisters where you learned fast to get along with others, while being strictly on your own.But for once Debbie was stumped - she simply could not hit it off with Rachele Newman, and she'd drawn Rachele as her roommate at Pine Ridge School - Rachele with her grown up-tastes and cultivated ways; Debbie roughhousing with her stuff all over the place! And Rachele's father a popular novelist, separated from her mother, while Debbie's Dad and Mom struggled indistinguishably together to bring up the family! And Rachele knowing all those grown-up artists, and living in New York, and wearing Paris models, and...and -Well, if it hadn't been for what Debbie's older brother Phil discovered about Rachele this might have been a quite different story, instead of something pretty satisfying about what can happen to exact opposites when they begin to look around them. (quoted from the dust-jacket)