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The Twins at St. Clare's (St Clares)

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Long before there was Harry Potter, there were Enid Blyton's boarding school books including the St Clare's, the Mallory Towers and the Naughtiest Girl series. The St Clare's series is about a pair of "stuck up twins" called Pat and Isabel who get sent to the "sensible" St Clare's boarding school by their parents who are concerned that they have acquired too many "airs and graces" at their previous school. They start out being very haughty and determined not to like anything about their new school (where they have to share a dormitory with other girls, play lacrosse instead of hockey and even do their own mending and run errands for the older girls) but quickly start to adjust to St Clare's ways and regret ever being so "horrid". My mother who was born in 1941 read these books as a girl and passed her love of them onto me. Now my 10yo daughter is reading them and loving them too. They are very un-PC in parts but that is part of what is so refreshing and entertaining reading them now. They are also very easy to read in a way that is quite similar to the Harry Potter books. I would highly recommend them to girls 8 years of age or older.

As a little girl I used to read Blyton's books in German. Now my girls are reading them in original English, and although quite a bit out-dated considering manners, habits and environment, human emotions and experiences at that age level stil remain. I highly recommend it, especially for mother/daughter read-aloud time. What wonderful memories...

This book is tops, and i cannot believe that i am the first person to review it! iam particularly attached to Janet, as i luv to play practical jokes! The twins acted like right pigs in the first part, but they soon became nice, thankfully.

This book is gr8!! I like the St Clares better then Malory Towers. I reeeeeeally like the way Enid Blyton wrote.... but don't read 3rd and 6th coz Pamela Cox wrote those and she she sucks at carring on Blyton's characters. SHe's got Charlotta all WRONG!!! But I do like Rachel in the 3rd, she was a good character. And the twins in the 1st form in the 6th book are good but their excuse for pretending that 1 of the twins was ill at home and they pretended to both be the 1 twin was RUBISH!!! I mean saying that they just thought it would be fun or somethink was UTTER AND COMPLETE RUBBISH (just don't read them it will save urself the misery)!!!!!
This book is really gr8 and is good way to start off the seires. It gives u a clear veiw of what the school is all about and the books to follow. If u like St Clare's then do read Malory Towers, it is just like this but not with twins. It's basically a copy of St Clare's or St Clare's is a copy. If u have already 1 other book and wasn't keen maybe have a look at it in a charity shop and then decide later.
I find it really odd that Byton didn't like kids when she wrote such gr8 1s.I would advise u to buy this book.