Gay Lambert at the Chalet School
10 best books like Gay Lambert at the Chalet School (Elinor M. Brent-Dyer): Thursday's Children, Autumn Term, Silver Brumbies of the South, Far to Go, Clover, No Castanets at the Wells, First Term at Trebizon, Death in the Spotlight, The O'Sullivan Twins, Drina Dances in Exile
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0440987903 |
Books about ballet I read whenever I find them, and this one, I simply inhaled. I don't know why I didn't come across this one years ago--but then Rumer Godden has not always been a easy find in this country; by the time I was cruising the library shelves, a lot of her books had gone the way of the library discard...
| Author | Antonia Forest |
| ISBN | 0571206409 |
I don't know how I managed never to discover Forest when I was younger, but I'm glad to find her now. She was recommended to me by some friends on-line, and four books kindly sent to me by a friend in England. They are hard to find here—I don't know why the heck they are not in constant print. At the front introduction...
| Author | Elyne Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0090744306 |
Silver Brumbies of the South is the third book in the original series about the Silver Brumby. Thowra, the most beautiful brumby stallion ever to gallop across the great Main Range, is disturbed by men bringing machinery and noise to the area of the mountains which he roams.
Storm also has been...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0440424941 |
Set at the start of the 20th century, there’s a realistic backdrop to this story with horse-drawn carriages, pea-souper smogs, and a strongly demarcated class system. It's a sequel to 'Thursday's Child' which introduces the intrepid Margaret Thursday, but can be read as a stand-alone.
I...
Clover is the fourth book in the popular What Katy Did series. After Katy’s wedding, the focus shifts to her little sister Clover. Their brother Phil encounters serious illness in the winter, and Dr. Carr sends him with Clover to the mountains of Colorado. Clarence Page, their naughty cousin from...
| Author | Lorna Hill |
| ISBN | 0330338714 |
Fans of Sebastian and Veronica (see A Dream of Sadler's Wells and Veronica at Sadler's Wells) will love this story about Caroline, Veronica's loyal younger cousin. Back in Northumberland, Caroline has been working on her dancing, hoping to emulate Veronica's success. In the meantime, she has also...
| Author | Anne Digby |
| ISBN | 0140324186 |
Fresh from a London comprehensive, Rebecca Mason is plunged into life at Trebizon, the famous boarding school for girls. Lonely and anxious to prove herself, Rebecca decides to write something for the school magazine. But the piece that appears is not the one she intended and she unwittingly triggers...
| Author | Robin Stevens |
| ISBN | 0141373822 |
Someone will take their final bow . . .
Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge: acting.
But the Detective Society is never far away from danger, and it's clear there's trouble afoot at the...
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 0749719109 |
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When I was about 6 years old I received what is still one of the best presents I've ever had: my mum's old Enid Blyton collection. It consisted of the St Clare's books, Mallory Towers, and a small selection of Famous Five, Five Find-Outers, and Adventure-series...
| Author | Jean Estoril |
| ISBN | 0590430815 |
When her grandparents go to Australia for the year, Drina is at first horrified to be sent to the Dominick's residential campus. She feels as though she is in exile at Chalk Green, so far from London. However, she slowly begins to enjoy it more and make friends, and things definitely improve when Rose joins...
| Author | Penelope Farmer |
| ISBN | 0440423082 |
Now that Charlotte has gone off to boarding school, Emma Makepeace is left alone and mostly friendless in her small town. Added to that, she’s begun having strange, frightening dreams of flying that involve Bobby Fumpkins, a fat, unpopular boy from school. Then she finds out that he’s having the...
| Author | K.M. Peyton |
| ISBN | 0192750550 |
K.M. Peyton surprised many devoted fans of Flambards by returning to her beloved trilogy many years after its publication to write this controversial fourth book. As far as I can tell, readers love it or hate it (and some wish she had never written it because it is somewhat disillusioning). Yet to me,...
| Author | Esme Kerr |
| ISBN | 1908435992 |
The first in the exciting new Knight's Haddon series ...
Orphan Edie is sent by her artdealer uncle to Knight’s Haddon School, to investigate the disappearance of a precious glass bird belonging to his secretive client’s daughter, Anastasia, an unhappy Russian princess. But what Edie...
