The Upper Fourth promises to be another exciting year at Malory Towers. There is Alicia with her tricks, Darrell with her Temper, timid Mary-Lou and the madcaps Belinda and Irene.
Darrell and her friends grow together as they share their school days. There are new ... more
students to induct, sporting matches to be won, tempers to control and tricks to play on teachers. This work presents stories about life at boarding school as readers follow the girls' lives through 6 years at Malory Towers.
Advantages: Very readable, enjoyable, imaginative, contains some sensible & good philosophies Disadvantages: The modern versions of the books are altered to make them politically correct
The set of MaloryTowers books was written by EnidBlyton during the post-WW2 part of the 1940s?.I think the final one may have spilled over into 1950. They tell the story of pupil Darrel Rivers? time at the school, from her very first day as a 13-year-old, through to her last, when she leaves at age 18.
I read my first EnidBlytonMaloryTowers book when I was aged about 9. We?d had a bring & buy sale at my primary school as an end of term activity, and I managed to cop a paperback edition of the 3rd book in the series for the grand sum of one old halfpenny! Later in the evening when at home and in bed (I was supposed to be asleep), I began to read Third Year At MaloryTowers, and just couldn?t put the book down ? I read it from cover to cover that night, in secret by torchlight under the blankets, and the next day my mother ...
Advantages: Absorbing; heartwarming; easy to read Disadvantages: Relaunched version has been slightly edited
This is the first book in the recently relaunched MaloryTowers series, penned by the legend of children's literature that is EnidBlyton. The story is set in an idyllic Cornish boarding school and follows the exploits of young Darrell Rivers, a headstrong and straightforward twelve year old girl, throughout her school years.
In this first book we meet the girls who will be encountered throughout the series: the quick-tongued, impatient Alicia; timid, loving little Mary-Lou; spiteful, spoilt Gwendoline; quiet, determined, difficult Sally. And indeed many more.
Blyton is quick to set the scene: MaloryTowers is first glimpsed by Darrell (and by the reader) as she approaches on the school bus. A magnificent old castle-esque building situated right by the coast, with a tower at each end and an open courtyard in the middle ...
Advantages: easy to read, simple values, Disadvantages: bit outdated now, not seen as "PC" by some people
When I was a little girl I was an avid reader. EnidBlyton was my favourite author. In todays world, her books seem very simple and old fashioned because people had very different values back in the days in which the books are based.
I think that children of today would probably be bored with the books, however I still have all of mine, ready to pass on to my daugher (if I have one) one day.
There were six books in the MaloryTowers series:
· First Term at MaloryTowers
· Second Form at MaloryTowers
· Third Form at MaloryTowers
· UpperFourth at MaloryTowers
· In the Fifth at MaloryTowers
· Last Term at MaloryTowers
The series follows a boarding school in Cornwll, which has 4 towers, North, South, East and West. The books seem to focus on the North Tower and Darrell Rivers.
Each novel is about a year ...
The Upper Fourth promises to be another exciting year at Malory Towers. There is Alicia with her tricks, Darrell with her Temper, timid Mary-Lou and the madcaps Belinda and Irene.
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