Fun and Games at Malory Towers

Boarding school life at Malory Towers, with its lessons, matches, midnight feasts and shifting friendships, carries this entry in the series Enid Blyton created. Darrell Rivers and her friends move through a term of small crises and larger ones, where the real subject is always how a group of girls works out fairness among themselves. The storytelling is warm and episodic, chapters function as self-contained scenes, and the cliff-top school setting has kept generations of readers attached to it. Anyone who grew up with the earlier Malory Towers books will recognise the rhythm immediately. Reading notes: • Set in the Malory Towers boarding school world created by Enid Blyton • Episodic chapters centred on friendship, rivalry and school rules • Gentle in tone, with nothing unsuitable for younger readers • A Hodder Books edition for readers around eight to twelve A natural next step for children who have finished the earlier Malory Towers titles, available at Boipoka.