What Katy Did at School

Author	L.M. Montgomery
ISBN	0553262149

Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if she promises to stop...

Author	L.M. Montgomery
ISBN	0553264931

Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees...

Author	Louisa May Alcott
ISBN	1419122126

NOTE: Little Women is sometimes published in two volumes, entitled Little Women and Good Wives.

Amy looked relieved, but naughty Jo took her at her word, for during the first call she sat with every limb gracefully composed, every fold correctly draped, calm as a summer sea, cool as a snowbank,...

Author	L.M. Montgomery
ISBN	0553213180

Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor.

A...

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L.M. Montgomery

Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding...

Author	Gene Stratton-Porter
ISBN	0253203635

This book was written several generations ago. When I first read it (more than 40 years ago?) it was a bit dated already, but a basic coming of age plus love interest story, with a lot of tidbits about nature thrown in. Rereading it now, I found myself noticing the cultural differences between now and when...

Author	L.M. Montgomery
ISBN	0553213679

When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great idea. To help them through the dreary months ahead, she, Felicity, Cecily, and Dan will publish a magazine.

From "Personals" to "Fashion Notes" to an etiquette column and...

Author	Enid Blyton
ISBN	0603559581

The Twins at St Clare's (St Clare's, #1), Enid Blyton
The Twins at St Clare's is a children's novel by Enid Blyton set in an English girls' boarding school. It is the first of the original six novels in the St. Clare's series of school stories. First published in 1941, it tells the story of twin sisters...

Author	E. Nesbit
ISBN	0140367519

Edith Nesbit’s life was certainly unconventional by late Victorian and Edwardian standards, and it’s not surprising that her own childhood experiences and adult observations find themselves thinly fictionalised in her novels, particularly those written for children. Typical is her re-use...

Author	Frederick Marryat
ISBN	1853261106

It is strange when there is a connection found between dissimilar things in our everyday life. While I was reading this book by Frederick Marryat, I read on a plaque on my nightly rounds at the museum that the artist Thomas Chambers used Marryat's naval writings as an inspiration for some of his seascapes....

Author	Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
ISBN	0006903355

The Bettany sisters - Madge, who founded a boarding school for girls in the Austrian Tyrol, in The School at the Chalet , and her younger sister Joey, who was enrolled as the school's first pupil - return in this second installment of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's epic fifty-eight-volume series (sixty-two,...

Author	Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
ISBN	0006925170

Well, I've reread about ten of these today (not going to rate them all, thinking of your poor feeds), and I've only got about twenty in the series, which must contain over fifty books...

I tend to divide the copies I've got into two sets. The first set is the beginning of the school, which is a boarding...

Author	Pamela Cox
ISBN	1405219823

It's official now - I am binging on this series! The Third Form at St. Clare's was not in the original St. Clare's series by Enid Blyton. It was later included along with two other books in the series in 2000 and is written by Pamela Cox. I rather liked Cox's Malory Towers continuation, but I don't think she...

Author	Charles Tritten
ISBN	0307122212

When I was seven or eight, there was a block of flats near my home which were condemned. My sister, her friend and I spent several afternoons exploring the old flats. In one of them, I found abandoned copies of Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Song. I read them, loved them, and lost them.

In need of comfort...