The New Girl at Melling

Title: The New Girl at Melling

 

Author: Margaret Biggs

 

Publisher: Girls Gone By

 

Date: 2006 reprint

 

Pages: 164

 

Format: Paperback

 

Series: The Melling series, book 5

 

Spring term at Melling School, and Roddy Blake is sure that “nothing will happen at all”, for spring terms are so often dull. But like is always fun for the friendly Blake and Lacey families and of course Melling, with its tender-hearted headmistress, is a wonderful school at any time!

 

This term there is a new girl: Anne. Anne’s stormy character upsets everyone, but Roddy finds herself liking her more and more, and then helping her when she discovers why Anne seems unfriendly and unhappy. Anne loves music, a love frowned upon by her strict guardian aunts, and Roddy tries to prove to them that they are wrong.

 

Roddy is busy, too, as editor of the school magazine, to which even her younger sister Susan contributes in her gay and original way, although she is very busy raising money to buy a bicycle for her best friends Laura Lacey. Laura gets her bicycle, for Susan’s methods are surprisingly fruitful as well as amusing.

 

Then Anne finds her peace and happiness, and a deep affection for her aunts – and so all ends well in this delightful addition to the much-loved series of books by Margaret Biggs.