Straw Hat: 33 books

If you love P G Wodehouse, with whom this author has been compared, here is your chance to discover Alan Davidson's classic comic creation, thirteen year old Annabel Fidelity Bunce. In the respectable little English town of Addendon, she's adored by her best friend Kate, considered by many...

Alison Only Wanted to Change Her Life - Not End It! "AN IRRESISTIBLE COMBINATION OF DREAM INDULGENCE AND UNSETTLING NIGHTMARE" - Chicago Center for Children's Literature Alison Allbright is so ashamed of her tiny home and of parents who can't even afford a telephone or car....

The enigma of the sweetly-smiling Sheena Franks-Walters, the dimmest girl in the class, has long fascinated Annabel. Why do her millionaire parents send her to a dump like Willers, full of unrefined classmates like Justine Bird and Miles Noggins, when they could afford to send her to the best school...

It may be the hockey term at Trebizon but tennis remains important in Rebecca's life. Can Fiona Freeman really see into the future in the old light globe she uses as a crystall ball? Rebecca would love to know whether or not she should give up her tennis hopes -- and whether Tish's unusual tactics...

It seems like a great adventure to race across to Mulberry Island at low tide but how were Rebecca, Tish and Sue to know that Justin's little sister would follow them? After such a fright, Justin won't speak to Sue now. And when a crew arrives to make a TV documentary about life at Trebizon, even...

Hi, my name's Jill Robinson and this is where my chronicles begin - with a sudden move to a brand new town. New house, new school, new everything - and [I hope] a new best friend. What an unpheaval - especially when Gran refuses to move and locks herself in her room! That's only the start but I know...

They say magical things can happen at Christmas but it's going to take more than a sprinkling of fairy dust to save our Youth Club's ambitious production of Cinderella - not to mention my own dreams of stardom. Roy, our club leader, is my big sister Sarah'a boy friend and they're working in harmony...

Rebecca unexpectedly finds herself back at Trebizon in the summer holidays with the rest of her friends, helping at a camp for city children in the school grounds. She and Sally [Elf] Elphinstone are put in charge of the worst behaved kid on the camp. Looking after little Tommy Carter provides plenty...

When an interesting old French oil painting goes missing from posh Les-Jen Lodge, home of one of my school mates, it creates a mega-drama for us Robinsons.  All the evidence points to my big sister Sarah being the person responsible - and unless Lindy and I can find out what's really happened, it...

It's summer again and some of us think Roy's plan for our Youth Club's holiday project is fantastic. We've raised a lot of funds, so why not use them to build a proper crossing at the Stepping Stones Bend on the River Rye? That way the old folk, and young families too, will be able to reach the local...

Pretty exhausted by our move to the new town, we Robinsons need a holiday and Mum and Dad have hired two caravans at Westsea so we can all have a nice summer break.  But why is my young brother Tony behaving so mysteriously, disappearing off all the time and making Dad furious? It's going to ruin...

Rebecca and her French pen friend have never met but from the beginning they've felt like sisters and told each other their secrets. Rebecca keeps Emmanuelle's letters safe in her bedside locker, along with her diary and other private things. Safe--until she discovers that the locker is being raided...

With tennis and hockey ruled out after her car accident, and Robbie blaming himself, Rebecca has nothing but GCSE work to look forward to this term. Until she meets Cliff! Along with a ghostly figure, a strange cat and a ghostly intruder in Court House...life at Trebizon gets more exciting than ever. Book 11 in the classic boarding school series.

The end of the GCSE year looks set to be unforgettable as Rebecca plans her French pen friend's return visit. But in a term full of dramatic happenings, nothing could be stranger than the way Emmanuelle behaves when she gets to Trebizon. Book 14 brings the classic boarding school series to a memorable conclusion.