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The Naughtiest Girl #3
The Naughtiest Girl Is a Monitor
Nagajivka Nika je nova zbirka avtorice Pet prijateljev in Skrivnih sedem. V 3. delu zbirke je nagajivka Nika zelo ponosna, ker so jo otroci izbrali za rediteljico. To je častno mesto, ki ga v Šoli belega lista zaupajo le najboljšim učencem, saj se k njim drugi učenci zatekajo po pomoč. Prav kmalu pa Nika ugotovi, da delo in odgovornost rediteljice ni preprosta naloga – čim bolj se trudi, da bi ravnala prav in pravično, tem bolj se utaplja v težavah in razočaranju … Je sploh primerna za to vlogo?
248 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1999
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Enid Blyton
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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
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
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September 17, 2008
One thing about Whyteleafe, the school The Naughtiest Girl (namely Elizabeth Allen) goes to: it's not a single-sexed school like other boarding schools in other series made by Enid Blyton (except for St. Rollo, but then it's a standalone, not a series). When boys and girls go to the same school, there can be different types of drama. No, non-platonic/non-familial love and sex are of course virtually non-existent from Blyton's work, but the way the characters interact just makes me grin, as if there are more in there than just care between friends. That's what make stories of Whyteleafe cute.
But now let's talk about the main character first: Elizabeth Allen. Elizabeth is a fortunate, charming girl; but here's what's so interesting about her: Blyton installed her with many flaws (just like she did to many of her main characters). Elizabeth makes mistakes; she easily loses temper; but that's why readers love her. Because she's just like us - not a Mary Sue (that many of us pretend or wish to be).
This semester, Elizabeth's still struggling to shake the title 'The Naughtiest Girl' off her. She's a monitor now, so she must behave even better! But things are not so easy, because there are new students that can make Elizabeth's semester another hell: one of them is Julian, the green-eyed boy who is one of the most fascinating characters boarding school series have ever known. As a young girl I was in love with Julian. How can't one?
Elizabeth and Julian laugh and fight and cry and face their own problems and their own demons, and we follow them trying to make themselves better and each other better.
In one word: lovable.
But now let's talk about the main character first: Elizabeth Allen. Elizabeth is a fortunate, charming girl; but here's what's so interesting about her: Blyton installed her with many flaws (just like she did to many of her main characters). Elizabeth makes mistakes; she easily loses temper; but that's why readers love her. Because she's just like us - not a Mary Sue (that many of us pretend or wish to be).
This semester, Elizabeth's still struggling to shake the title 'The Naughtiest Girl' off her. She's a monitor now, so she must behave even better! But things are not so easy, because there are new students that can make Elizabeth's semester another hell: one of them is Julian, the green-eyed boy who is one of the most fascinating characters boarding school series have ever known. As a young girl I was in love with Julian. How can't one?
Elizabeth and Julian laugh and fight and cry and face their own problems and their own demons, and we follow them trying to make themselves better and each other better.
In one word: lovable.
February 13, 2021
Well perhaps, by reading the first three of Enid Blyton’s The Naughtiest Girl novels in a row, in basically one single perusal (and with only very few breaks in between perusals), I am in fact getting worn down a bit, I am becoming used to and even increasingly accepting of how in The Naughtiest Girl series, Blyton’s coeducational and for al intents and purposes student run and often self governing Whyteleafe School is constantly enabling and also strongly promoting collective thinking and behavioural norms.
For indeed, even though I still do tend to very much consider how Whyteleafe School is set up more than a trifle problematic and not really all that educationally and culturally progressive (what with everything being rather if not even absolutely communal in scope) and that this philosophy really does seem to be oh so much more important and an essential boarding school life norm than students being individuals and being encouraged with regard to this, in the third series instalment, in The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor, albeit that I still do have my issues with the former, with Whyteleafe School celebrating students being moulded into similar types and not often being encouraged and allowed to show their own and distinctive personalities and character traits (warts and all), yes indeed, by the time I had reached The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor, I was, I guess, so used to Enid Blyton’s set-up and vision for her Whtyeleafe School that I also was kind of habituated to what Whyteleafe School is like, with its communalism, with its sharing and with its cult of students being moulded into one rather all encompassing type of scholar and person, that I was actually and in fact kind of even at times considering, well maybe, this collective way of thinking and acting is perhaps not so very bad after all.
But indeed and in retrospect, the above really also does rather intellectually bother me, since children reading The Naughtiest is a Monitor and the entire series might in fact have the same reading reaction and suddenly only see Elizabeth Allen’s transformation into a collectivism happy and accepting boarding school student as something worthwhile, as something positive and to be copied and imitated, since they, because students might well not have the critical means of taking a step back and realising that very much of Enid Blyton’s The Naughtiest Girl series is actually kind of propagandistic and heavy duty with celebrating collective behaviour (as yes, especially The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor clearly shows with its presented episodes and with how students are depicted, that the only way for Elizabeth and her classmates to be truly content at Whyteleafe, to be able to truly enjoy their time at boarding school and to become, to be seen as positive students and people is to collectively adhere to and celebrate the regulations, the rules of the school, and not to engage in too much individuality, questioning and criticism of the status quo of and at Whyteleafe School).
Three stars with regard to how much I have in fact enjoyed reading about Elizabeth’s escapades (and yes, I do like the fact that in The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor her stint as a monitor is by no means simply so-called smooth sailing). Furthermore, I guess that I also do have to grudgingly commend Enid Blyton for penning a boarding school series where the anathema to me concept of collectivism actually does start to become increasingly palatable to and for me by book three, by The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor. But sorry, the fact that Enid Blyton has in fact been able to make communalism and total universality (as a philosophy) appear to and for me as not so bad after a while and after all, and with her The Naughtiest Girl series constantly promoting and feting this all, well, that is also problematic enough for me to become rather intellectually critical and to lower my original three stars for The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor to two and to consider the entire The Naughtiest Girl series as being rather problematic, one-sided and a trifle frighteningly didactic (and I am definitely a bit hesitant to continue on, although I am of course also kind of curious how in the Anne Digby continuations, Digby has handled Enid Blyton’s rather obvious admiration for and support of communalism and collectivism).
For indeed, even though I still do tend to very much consider how Whyteleafe School is set up more than a trifle problematic and not really all that educationally and culturally progressive (what with everything being rather if not even absolutely communal in scope) and that this philosophy really does seem to be oh so much more important and an essential boarding school life norm than students being individuals and being encouraged with regard to this, in the third series instalment, in The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor, albeit that I still do have my issues with the former, with Whyteleafe School celebrating students being moulded into similar types and not often being encouraged and allowed to show their own and distinctive personalities and character traits (warts and all), yes indeed, by the time I had reached The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor, I was, I guess, so used to Enid Blyton’s set-up and vision for her Whtyeleafe School that I also was kind of habituated to what Whyteleafe School is like, with its communalism, with its sharing and with its cult of students being moulded into one rather all encompassing type of scholar and person, that I was actually and in fact kind of even at times considering, well maybe, this collective way of thinking and acting is perhaps not so very bad after all.
But indeed and in retrospect, the above really also does rather intellectually bother me, since children reading The Naughtiest is a Monitor and the entire series might in fact have the same reading reaction and suddenly only see Elizabeth Allen’s transformation into a collectivism happy and accepting boarding school student as something worthwhile, as something positive and to be copied and imitated, since they, because students might well not have the critical means of taking a step back and realising that very much of Enid Blyton’s The Naughtiest Girl series is actually kind of propagandistic and heavy duty with celebrating collective behaviour (as yes, especially The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor clearly shows with its presented episodes and with how students are depicted, that the only way for Elizabeth and her classmates to be truly content at Whyteleafe, to be able to truly enjoy their time at boarding school and to become, to be seen as positive students and people is to collectively adhere to and celebrate the regulations, the rules of the school, and not to engage in too much individuality, questioning and criticism of the status quo of and at Whyteleafe School).
Three stars with regard to how much I have in fact enjoyed reading about Elizabeth’s escapades (and yes, I do like the fact that in The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor her stint as a monitor is by no means simply so-called smooth sailing). Furthermore, I guess that I also do have to grudgingly commend Enid Blyton for penning a boarding school series where the anathema to me concept of collectivism actually does start to become increasingly palatable to and for me by book three, by The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor. But sorry, the fact that Enid Blyton has in fact been able to make communalism and total universality (as a philosophy) appear to and for me as not so bad after a while and after all, and with her The Naughtiest Girl series constantly promoting and feting this all, well, that is also problematic enough for me to become rather intellectually critical and to lower my original three stars for The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor to two and to consider the entire The Naughtiest Girl series as being rather problematic, one-sided and a trifle frighteningly didactic (and I am definitely a bit hesitant to continue on, although I am of course also kind of curious how in the Anne Digby continuations, Digby has handled Enid Blyton’s rather obvious admiration for and support of communalism and collectivism).
September 14, 2017
I may be overthinking this, it being a book for readers very much younger than I, but this otherwise entertaining tale suffers from two reasonably large failings:
1. The ending felt very much tacked on and more than a little random.
2. The conflict between the protagonist and the major antagonist goes absolutely nowhere.
Other than that, this was OK.
1. The ending felt very much tacked on and more than a little random.
2. The conflict between the protagonist and the major antagonist goes absolutely nowhere.
Other than that, this was OK.
April 28, 2009
A childhood favourite...as are all three of the Elizabeth Allen series.
March 24, 2017
A autora é, de facto, brilhante e fez um trabalho notável, conseguindo que os seus livros se tornem intemporais
October 28, 2009
Elizabeth Allen (the former naughtiest girl) is a monitor! Can you believe it? She tries to set a good example, but things will just go wrong. She takes her new responsibilities so seriously her that she actually accuses her friend Julian of stealing. The Naughtiest Girl series is my favorite Blyton series. Elizabeth is so real. And the school is pretty progressive even by today's standards--students decide what they are permitted and what infractions deserve punishments. They are encouraged to take responsibility for their own behaviour--and it works! (See, I even spelled it the British way!) The bloom is off this rose just a bit because Elizabeth is trying so hard to be good, having matured from her irresponsible early days at school. But it is still fun, especially for fans of the Sullivan Twins or Malory Towers series.
November 6, 2015
The first book of the saga remains my favorite but this one was better than the 2nd one. This one has several elements in common with the first book, like, for example, Elizabeth gets in trouble and no one wants to be her friend. There are 4 new kids too: Arabella, who is vain; Rosemary, a shy girl; Martin, who has no friends, and Julian, funny and intelligent. The one thing I missed was Joan as Elizabeth's best friend. She barely appears in the story. But Elizabeth continues being naughty even if she doesn't want too, and that is why the book is enjoyable.
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August 19, 2018Just finished reading this to the kids, who, once again enjoyed a classic Blyton book - even though they are boys. In my opinion, the best of the series, with Elizabeth dealing with some big issues and coming through her hardest term at Whyteleafe school.
October 16, 2013
I read this book when I was 13 and I loved it. It's the first Enid Blyton book I read, and it's the first book that made me realise books can make you high xP. It'll stay with me forever =D.
July 29, 2024
It's a long time since I read this book, maybe thirty years. I liked the series very much as a child. I re-read the first two of the original trilogy in the past few months, and have just finished the third. I'm surprised just how much I liked it. There are four new children at Whyteleafe School, and Elizabeth, now a monitor, rather dislikes three of them. The fourth is a bright, amusing boy who doesn't want to use his brains and doesn't care about school rules.
Inevitably Elizabeth's hot temper gets the better of her, and she jumps to some conclusions that get her into trouble. I thought this plot was well handled by Enid Blyton. It was easy enough for me to guess what was happening, but Elizabeth is a believable, likeable character who is too impetuous in her judgements. Once I'd begun reading, I could hardly put the book down.
Naturally this is dated (it was first published in the late 1940s) but still in print, and still appeals to some of today's children as well as nostalgic adults like me.
Four and a half stars really.
Longer review here: https://suesbookreviews.blogspot.com/...
Inevitably Elizabeth's hot temper gets the better of her, and she jumps to some conclusions that get her into trouble. I thought this plot was well handled by Enid Blyton. It was easy enough for me to guess what was happening, but Elizabeth is a believable, likeable character who is too impetuous in her judgements. Once I'd begun reading, I could hardly put the book down.
Naturally this is dated (it was first published in the late 1940s) but still in print, and still appeals to some of today's children as well as nostalgic adults like me.
Four and a half stars really.
Longer review here: https://suesbookreviews.blogspot.com/...
February 3, 2020
* 4.25 out of 5 stars
May 18, 2023
Divertido y perfecto para tener una lectura amena y de confort :D en vaya líos se meten en el colegio, como disfruto de las novelas de internados
May 19, 2018
Elizabeth returns to Whyteleafe School as a Monitor for her third term, faces new challenges - and doesn’t cope very well! She’s set apart from her friends by her new role and oversteps her responsibilities - which is unsurprising when she’s given no guidance - and she’s up against more malign forces than in the previous books, without the support of sensible friend, Joan who is “written out” into a higher form.
This is definitely the weakest of the three Naughtiest Girl books. There’s a School Meeting in which the child who has repeatedly been called a dunce by his classmates is told to work harder to avoid the name callers but the culprits aren’t chastised - a injustice that even early readers must have noticed. The author also introduces the hackneyed plot devices of a midnight feast and practical jokes involving “curious little gadgets” and unlikely chemical mixtures - these will reappear regularly in her later school series. Finally, as another reviewer pointed out, the last two chapters seem tacked on as though Enid Blyton had run out of inspiration.
My edition was published in 1997 and, for the sake of the modern reader, all the references to money have been “decimalised” - except for one errant shilling that crept past the proof reader - and it makes rather a nonsense of the sums of money involved in the theft plot.
This is definitely the weakest of the three Naughtiest Girl books. There’s a School Meeting in which the child who has repeatedly been called a dunce by his classmates is told to work harder to avoid the name callers but the culprits aren’t chastised - a injustice that even early readers must have noticed. The author also introduces the hackneyed plot devices of a midnight feast and practical jokes involving “curious little gadgets” and unlikely chemical mixtures - these will reappear regularly in her later school series. Finally, as another reviewer pointed out, the last two chapters seem tacked on as though Enid Blyton had run out of inspiration.
My edition was published in 1997 and, for the sake of the modern reader, all the references to money have been “decimalised” - except for one errant shilling that crept past the proof reader - and it makes rather a nonsense of the sums of money involved in the theft plot.
May 24, 2013
Read this series twice. It's really interesting. So real. I felt sad when I finish reading. Couldn't even find the next series...
I wish I could go back to a school. To Whyteleafe or to an awesome shcool. There should be more schools like Whyteleafe in this county. Letting the children solve their problems with the help and guidance of teachers (in serious cases) who deserves punishments and all. Just great. You should read it too... =)
I wish I could go back to a school. To Whyteleafe or to an awesome shcool. There should be more schools like Whyteleafe in this county. Letting the children solve their problems with the help and guidance of teachers (in serious cases) who deserves punishments and all. Just great. You should read it too... =)
February 12, 2021
The Third and last of the full length books by Blyton in this series and now she has been crushed by the establishment and beaten down to accept all, she becomes one of them in true some animals are more equal than others fashion. The story and series are somewhat engaging but also equally infuriating with the know it all attitude behind it and the people making decisions who just seem inadequate. This could easily be worked into horror.
October 14, 2009
Slightly crazy that naughty Elizabeth became a monitor so fast - I'd not have trusted her for such a duty for another few terms yet!
June 9, 2011
This is the third book of the whole series, Enid Blyton has been one of my full time favourite author! The fist few books are quite good, but in the middle, it started to turn not-so-interesting.
March 10, 2019
#2019 #YearInBooks Book 24
This series is fast becoming a favourite. This book brings new children to the plot, and different things to learn along with fun adventures. My favourite character apart from Elizabeth was Julian.
There were childish skirmishes and mischiefs from unsaid but expected rivalries. It added to the fun and the Monthly Meetings were enjoyable too. onto the next book now.
This series is fast becoming a favourite. This book brings new children to the plot, and different things to learn along with fun adventures. My favourite character apart from Elizabeth was Julian.
There were childish skirmishes and mischiefs from unsaid but expected rivalries. It added to the fun and the Monthly Meetings were enjoyable too. onto the next book now.
March 16, 2021
این جلد بهتر از جلدهای قبلی بود ولی چیزی که توی این کتاب اصلا خوب نبود این بود که دوست هایی که توی جلدهای قبلی کتاب با الیزابت بودن توی این کتاب خیلی اسمشون برده نشد اسم جون که توی جلدهای قبلی دوست صمیمی الیزابت بود فقط چندبار توی این کتاب اومده بود و درواقع نقشی توی کتاب نداشت
September 16, 2017
Arabella who?
September 27, 2019
I just remembered I used to read The Naughtiest Girl series so much in school lol
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March 12, 2023I really indulged and finished this one today as well. I have work to do - but the call of Whyteleafe is too strong... Whilst there has been some modernisation - shillings are now pounds which doesn't quite work in the same way, but that can be ignored - the basic elements of the tale are as true now as they were when this was written.
August 14, 2022
Loved these books as a kid and fund to read them to my own, who also love them too.
May 1, 2015
Semester 3 di Whyteleafe, Elizabeth Allen mulai menjalankan tanggung jawabnya sebagai Pengawas. Sayangnya setiap kali dia berusaha melakukan apapun dengan sebaik-baiknya, setiap kali itu juga dia terjerat dalam kesulitan.
Buku ini sebagian besar menceritakan tentang ELizabeth si pengawas dengan Julian yang bandel serta Arabella yang angkuh dan sombong. Oh juga dengan Martin Follet yang telah mengacaukan persahabatan Elizabeth dan Julian. Karena ulah Martin, secara tidak langsung Elizabeth harus diturunkan dari jabatannya sebagai Pengawas.
Masih mempunyai nuansa yang sama dengan buku buku sebelumnya, buku ini sarat akan nilai nilai kebaikan yang tercermin dalam narasi dan dialog-dialog tokohnya. Setelah membaca buku ini saya merasa bersemangat kembali untuk melakukan berbagai aktivias dengan sebaik baiknya. Buku ini juga membuat saya sadar akan pentingnya menjaga values: kejujuran, keberanian, toleransi, kemauan mengakui kekalahan dan kesalahan, dan sebagainya.
Satu satunya hal yang masih mengganjal bagi saya adalah bagian Arabella yang kurang dieksplore. Di akhir diterangkan bahwa dia mulai mengerti dan menyukai whiteleafe. tapi menurut saya arabella masih terlalu mengkhawatirkan. tidak ada turning point berarti yang membuat gadis angkuh ini mempunyai alasan untuk jatuh cinta pada whyteleafe (apalagi mengingat sifatnya yang sok bangsawan dan suka memandang rendah orang lain). sehingga terkesan seperti ada missing link karena di akhir tiba tiba arabella sudah mau berlapang dada dan ikut berbahagia atas keberhasilan elizabeth (yang mana bagi arabelle adalah musuh menyebalkan).
Saya suka desain sampul buku ini apalagi warnanya pastel. dan saya suka dialog dialognya yang ringan tetapi penuh pelajaran. (masih) berharap semua anak anak yang masih lurus hatinya mempunyai kesempatan untuk membaca buku ini dan mengambil berbagai hal positif dari dalamnya.
Buku ini sebagian besar menceritakan tentang ELizabeth si pengawas dengan Julian yang bandel serta Arabella yang angkuh dan sombong. Oh juga dengan Martin Follet yang telah mengacaukan persahabatan Elizabeth dan Julian. Karena ulah Martin, secara tidak langsung Elizabeth harus diturunkan dari jabatannya sebagai Pengawas.
Masih mempunyai nuansa yang sama dengan buku buku sebelumnya, buku ini sarat akan nilai nilai kebaikan yang tercermin dalam narasi dan dialog-dialog tokohnya. Setelah membaca buku ini saya merasa bersemangat kembali untuk melakukan berbagai aktivias dengan sebaik baiknya. Buku ini juga membuat saya sadar akan pentingnya menjaga values: kejujuran, keberanian, toleransi, kemauan mengakui kekalahan dan kesalahan, dan sebagainya.
Satu satunya hal yang masih mengganjal bagi saya adalah bagian Arabella yang kurang dieksplore. Di akhir diterangkan bahwa dia mulai mengerti dan menyukai whiteleafe. tapi menurut saya arabella masih terlalu mengkhawatirkan. tidak ada turning point berarti yang membuat gadis angkuh ini mempunyai alasan untuk jatuh cinta pada whyteleafe (apalagi mengingat sifatnya yang sok bangsawan dan suka memandang rendah orang lain). sehingga terkesan seperti ada missing link karena di akhir tiba tiba arabella sudah mau berlapang dada dan ikut berbahagia atas keberhasilan elizabeth (yang mana bagi arabelle adalah musuh menyebalkan).
Saya suka desain sampul buku ini apalagi warnanya pastel. dan saya suka dialog dialognya yang ringan tetapi penuh pelajaran. (masih) berharap semua anak anak yang masih lurus hatinya mempunyai kesempatan untuk membaca buku ini dan mengambil berbagai hal positif dari dalamnya.
July 23, 2022
Nth time of rereading this. Yeah I am in a Blyton reading mood it seems and this one was (is?) my favorite series of hers. It has problems but remains enjoyable enough. Things do happen with Elizabeth, don't they? She has one of the best character growths in all Blyton's dorm series. I love how the book also portrays how a girl and a boy can be besties (their dynamics are fun and adorable, even in later books). And I can't help but noticed that her former enemies always became her staunchest and loyal friends later.
March 31, 2019
I listened to this as an audio book.
Elizabeth starts the new term as a monitor. When money and possessions go missing she decides to set a trap for the thief.
However she accuses new boy Julian and the school thinks she was too hasty to accuse on such little evidence. Elizabeth gets into trouble with the teachers when someone plays a practical joke and she loses her monitor job.
Can Elizabeth redeem herself?
Elizabeth starts the new term as a monitor. When money and possessions go missing she decides to set a trap for the thief.
However she accuses new boy Julian and the school thinks she was too hasty to accuse on such little evidence. Elizabeth gets into trouble with the teachers when someone plays a practical joke and she loses her monitor job.
Can Elizabeth redeem herself?
January 2, 2009
I always enjoy the 'lessons' in Blyton's books :) For some reason, I don't think I particularly pursued this series when I was young, although I devoured (and still devour) the St Clare's and Malory Towers books... but now I love these just as much! A younger set of children and a mixed-sex school (how forward-thinking! hehe!) and lots of fun :)
April 23, 2013
Elizabeth, the previous naughtiest girl in the school, is now a monitor and in charge of many of the new Children at Whyteleaf School. Of course this is not as easy as it seems, as all of the children have new personalities to deal with as they settle in to school. Elizabeth ends up in many good and bad situations and deals with them in her usual stubborn but fair way. Still a fun book.
February 7, 2015
Keren haha, bisa melihat bagaimana Enid Blyton memberikan insight-insight kepada anak usia sekolah melalui cerita di dalamnya, insight ini juga cukup menarik bagi saya yang sudah "cukup berumur" karena melihat bagaimana sifat-sifat dari masing-masing anak dan bagaimana mereka memecahkan permasalahan mereka, dan uniknya buku ini juga menyisipkan sedikit tentang sosialisme, recommended sih
May 26, 2020
As a long-time lover of Enid Blyton books, I am aware that my opinions on her writing is likely biased, though this book really got me! I related to Martin in such an unexpected way. I remember facing similar situations when I was little. I always envied children in school with strong personalities like Elizabeth’s and Julian’s.
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