Second Form at St. Clare's

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Second Form at St Clares is fourth in a series of Books by Enid Blyton.The series is about high school twin girls Patricia and Isabel O'Sullivan. Both girls have been promoted to second form and are very excited about it. They are eager to go back to school. Their form mistress is now Miss Jenks and they no longer have to bear the severeness of first form mistress Miss Roberts.

The second form has only two girls who have been kept back from third form and two new girls. The two old girls are Elsie Fenshawe and Anna Johnson. Both are disliked as Elsie is spiteful and Anna is very lazy; however, both are made head of their form, replacing Hilary Wentworth who was head in first form.

The two new girls are Gladys Hilman & Mirabel Unwin.

• Gladys is miserable because her mother is ill and in hospital, she rarely speaks or joins in and is nicknamed "The Misery Girl". It takes Mirabel to find out what is wrong with her.

• Mirabel Unwin is determined to make the worst of things and ruin class for everyone, she was sent away from home because of her behaviour towards her younger brother and sister. Mirabel declares she wants to leave at half term but ends up staying when the girls give her a chance.

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• Later reprints of the book change from Carlotta slapping Mirabel for ruining a Drama class to her stepping on her toe.

• Gladys mentions that during the summer she has to stay at school due to her mother being ill and having no other family, she will be the only one there apart from two other girls whose parents are in India. It is later discovered that Hilary Wentworth was probably one of these girls as she doesn't come back for the sixth form as she is going to join her parents there.