St Clare's Collection 2: Books 4-6

by Enid Blyton

Schooldays at St Clare's are never dull for twins Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan in Enid Blyton's much-loved boarding school series.The Second Form at St Clare'sThe twins have made it to second form. New girls Gladys and Mirabel have great talents for acting and music, and Elsie, the form's unpopular Head Girl, learns to be less spiteful.The Third Form at St Clare'sIt's time for a new head girl. There are plenty of candidates, but after a terrible accident, and an hilarious school play, the true leaders are revealed.Kitty at St Clare'sPat breaks her arm and misses the first weeks of term. Will Pat be upset when new girl Amanda becomes Isabel's new best friend?There'll be mischief at St Clare's!Between 1941 and 1946, Enid Blyton wrote six novels set at St Clare's. Books 5, 6 and 9 are authorised sequels of the series written by Pamela Cox and feature storylines set in between the original Blyton novels. These books were published in 2000/2008 and are unillustrated.

Genres: Childrens

431 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2016

About the author

See also:
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)

Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.

Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.

Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.

According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.

See also her pen name Mary Pollock

Reviews

[Silvana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pamela Cox, you did a wonderful job. The new books are wizard! I thoroughly enjoyed the 5th and the 6th ones, with great new characters that offers lots of fun, mischief, tears and redemption.

Kitty was smashing, too bad she only stayed for one term. However, I believe Pamela also needed to adjust with the canon as none of these new characters appeared in the later (timeline-wise) canon books.

I also liked that Alison was portrayed in a more sympathetic light in Pamela's books. I don't know why but I have a soft spot for her. Carlotta was my favorite too, she's a bit like Elizabeth Allen with her fiery temper but also a very good friend and strong leader.

Now I am sad since I have only three books to read.

[JANANI PR · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was like our own school. I traveled into the book with Pat and Isabel. My most favourite part was the midnight feast and how Kitty tricked Margaret and Mc Ginty became the hero. I absolutely LOVED this three in one book.

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

my childhood in a book v2

[Katelyn Naomi Bennett · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is a great book and great for my kids!!!!😀😀😀😊😊😊

[banu · Rating 5 out of 5]

My childhood in 3 books

[Hilary Tesh]

Bought this book on kindle thinking it was the second three Enid Blyton St Clare’s books. But no - after “The Second Form at St Clare’s”, the next two books were by Pamela Cox. Started “The Third Form at St Clare’s” and got to the end of chapter 4 when it became clear that this was just a mishmash of plot lines taken from other EB school books, with small variations.

Eg - Rachel, the girl with a secret, - as had Margery and Carlotta; putting on a show (MT and earlier SC) and the various dramas surrounding it; featherheaded Alison attached to Fern who has the touch of malice required for the story; horse mad Libby - variation on character from MT.

Gave up - put “Second Form” as a stand-alone on my reading list.

[Gladys Almond · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moving on to the fifth

Really looking forward to the next three in one book. I have much enjoyed these stories. Thank you Enid Blyton.