The Strictest School In The World (Ages 9-12)

* * * The Strictest School In The World

Author: Howard Whitehouse
Illustrator: Bill Slavin
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Kids Can Press (August 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1553378830
ISBN-13: 978-1553378839

I loved this book! Full of adventure and written at a higher level than many books for kids in this age group, it will appeal to readers who seek adventure and intrigue.

Book Description: Fourteen-year-old pioneering aviatrix Emmaline Cayley is afraid of one thing: plummeting to her doom. (Actually two, if you count her Aunt Lucy's appalling cooking.) Fortunately, twelve-year-old Robert Burns, an indestructible village boy, is not. Absurdly unafraid of bodily harm (not to mention Aunt Lucy's sandwiches), "Rubberbones" is the ideal pilot for Emmaline's experiments with flight. But before Emmaline can perfect a flying machine with the aid of her new friend, she is sent off to St. Grimelda's School for Young Ladies - to be cured of her decidedly unladylike ways. It is a school so strict, so severe, so forbidding that it makes the brutal misery in the tales of Charles Dickens look cheery by comparison. With a horrifying headmistress, terrifying teachers and food that is even worse than Aunt Lucy's, this medieval stronghold also houses a terrible secret and a mysterious way of keeping its prisoners, er, its students in line. All Emmaline can think of is escape. But no one has ever escaped from St. Grimelda's. And our heroine soon realizes that the only way out is to face her greatest fear .

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