Secret Letters at Trebizon

Trebizon #13

by Anne Digby

Rebecca's never met her French pen friend but they feel like sisters and tell each other their secrets. No wonder she keeps Emmanuelle's letters safe. Safe, that is, until her bedside locker's raided and the letters tampered with.
Who could do such an unthinkable thing? Somehow, before she can face Emmanuelle in person in Paris, she must find out what's going on. But how? Because, as Tish says: "Looks like Action Committee's weirdest one yet."

As well as the Trebizon books, Straw Hat ebook collectables also publish Alan Davidson's classic schoolgirl comedies [A Friend Like Annabel, Just Like Annabel, etc.] and Anne Digby's Jill Robinson Adventure Series -- more fun, friendship and mystery titles for readers to collect and enjoy.

REVIEW

' The thirteenth book in Anne Digby's splendid series of stories about Trebizon School is as zestful and well constructed as all the earlier books about this famous fictional girls' boarding school. In this adventure the heroine, Rebecca Mason, is involved in taking her mock GCSE exams. She has convincingly matured and gone from junior to senior forms as the series has progressed. There are, as always, excitements and challenges - and a mystery which Rebecca and her friends tackle with their usual panache'
- COLLECTORS' DIGEST

Genres: School Stories, Childrens, Boarding School

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Anne Digby is a popular British children's author, best known for her fourteen-book Trebizon series, set at a large boarding school. In addition to her own Trebizon books, Digby has contributed new volumes to Enid Blyton's Naughtiest Girl series.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. The solution to the mystery of who's rifling through Rebecca's letters, and their motive, is lame. The whole French penpal thing is very sudden - apparently Rebecca's been writing to Emmanuelle for years and yet it was only just brought up in the last pages of the previous book. I can understand why - I don't imagine that Anne Digby had a massive plan for these books - but it still feels off.

[Dalia Hazem · Rating 4 out of 5]

Today, I can say that I am done with reading "Secret letters at Trebizon". This Book is my first experience with the British writer Anne Digby". I was a little bit confused because of the hundred names of characters that had been mentioned in that novel. I felt like stuck in the middle of them all.

That book represents as well my second experience in reading in English after the "Desperate Journey". I liked it in general, and I would like my sister to read it. In spite of publication in the 1990th, you can obviously feel the modernity of the story because the writer tried to demonstrate all means of Luxury during that era .

That's all what comes to my mind now :)

[Emma Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favourites of the series, the penpalling subplot is so great!

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Excellent as usual. I feel that the fifth year stories are just top-notch, Digby's writing is so good. The solution to the mystery was far-fetched but one of my hobbies is penpalling and I absolutely loved everything that had to do with this. Also, it's lovely to see everyone focusing on their school work so much (you can tell I'm a teacher) and there's a great sense of camaraderie coming from so many books spent with the same group of people, I feel like I'm friends with them.

[Kirsty Darbyshire · Rating 4 out of 5]

The penultimate book in the Trebizon series. Having been pleased to discover the rest of this series from my childhood I am now sad about having to finish it for good with the next book after the best part of thirty years! I thought this one was as good as I remember any of the earlier ones being. Even as an adult I couldn't figure out how the letter mystery central to the book was going to be happily concluded which was nice. It's a huge nostalgia kick reading these.

[Deborah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I remember being slightly disappointed with this one when I first read it - if Jenny had refused the request in the first place (which I felt would have been more consistent with her character), none of it would have happened. But I was impressed with Rebecca's history chart because I did a very similar one when I was her age! It's still a good story, just perhaps not quite so good as usual, maybe because it's setting the scene for the big finish.

[Verity W · Rating 3 out of 5]

It has been *so* long since I read a Trebizon book - and I had forgotten how nice they are. There's a definite difference in 80s boarding school life to the classic era - even if it's simple things like the girls taking the exams that I took - that I'd forgotten about. I don't think I ever read this first time around - I recognised the main cast of characters, but some of the side ones were unfamiliar to me. I'll keep an eye out for more to reread.

[Carolynne · Rating 2 out of 5]

The latest in the Trebizon series. Rebecca suspects one of her friends of snooping through her mail, but the real secret is one of her own. It's good that the British school story has not completely died out, but this is not the best representation of the genre. Try Elinor Brent-Dyer or Dorita Fairlie Bruce.

[Tianne Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mystery in the letters

Follow the French trip and pen pals as they reveal the secrets they had lied about. Surely this mystery could not be international