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A review by celiaedf12
Rivals of the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
4.0
Um, I actually teared up while reading this today. Yes, I am pre-menstrual. And also pathetic.
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A new school of English girls, St Scholastika's, is opened on the other side of the lake, and the girls from both schools enter into a rivalry. An ice skating incident results in Joey almost dying, and everyone staggers around weeping for a few chapters (hence my prickling eyes mentioned above).
We get to see a little bit of Madge's parenting skills, in which she gently exerts the discipline she uses on the girls in getting her baby son to go to sleep at his usual hour. All those exhausted mothers out there merely need to take some lessons from Madge's firm discipline, apparently.
Eventually the two schools come to a fairly fragile peace. I really enjoyed this one - I haven't read it before, and it was fun filling in some gaps (like how the Saints were established and so on).
***
A new school of English girls, St Scholastika's, is opened on the other side of the lake, and the girls from both schools enter into a rivalry. An ice skating incident results in Joey almost dying, and everyone staggers around weeping for a few chapters (hence my prickling eyes mentioned above).
We get to see a little bit of Madge's parenting skills, in which she gently exerts the discipline she uses on the girls in getting her baby son to go to sleep at his usual hour. All those exhausted mothers out there merely need to take some lessons from Madge's firm discipline, apparently.
Eventually the two schools come to a fairly fragile peace. I really enjoyed this one - I haven't read it before, and it was fun filling in some gaps (like how the Saints were established and so on).