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St. Clare's is a series of six books written by British children's author Enid Blyton about a boarding school of that name. The series follows the heroines Patricia ("Pat") and Isabel O'Sullivan from their first year at St. Clare's on. Other characters include Allison O'Sullivan (the twins' cousin), Hilary Wentworth, Carlotta, and Bobby Ellis.
In the first book, The Twins at St. Clare's, the twins Pat and Isabel refuse to go to St. Clare's as they thought it would be terrible. Their parents decide they will go to St. Clare's anyway, saying they were spoiled at Redrooofs (the twins previous school). The twins decide to disobey the teachers and give them a hard time. The twins meet Janet, who loves tricks; Hilary, who is head of the form, and many more people.
The six books are:
Another in the juvenile girls at St. Clare's school series
&&111 It's funny to go to the second grade classroom instead of to Miss =Roberts's room, said =Pat. I keep on going to the first grade room, as I always used to do.
we're doing it on purpose. We'd better be careful.
all, said =Pat. Miss =Roberts must have collected them altogether on the train. That's why we didn't see them. There's about =12!
they're only little kids, some of them not yet =14!
You will do one of three things, my dear =Mirabel, you will stay in the classroom and work, or you will stay in the classroom and do nothing at all, not even say a word, or you will go and stand outside the classroom till the lesson is finished!
=Jenks and be sent outside. But she soon found it wearisome to stand there so long, waiting for the others to come out. Also, she was always a little afraid that the =HeadMistress, Miss =Theobald, would come along. Loudly as =Miribel declared that she cared for nobody, nobody at all at silly =StClares, she was in awe of quiet Miss =Theobald.
that evening in the noisy common room. She stole away by herself to one of the music rooms. She had spoken truly when she had told =Bobby that she could play the piano and the violin. She loved music, and was a really good performer on the piano and a beautiful player of the violin. But because of her defiant obstinacy, she had refused to learn either of the instruments at =StClare's, when her father had spoken to her about them.
excellent teachers of both.
rather mean. I rather wish we hadn't done quite so many things, and anyway, I don't know who splilt ink over her math paper, and took the water out of the flowers. We didn't arrange that. Who did it?
say she had done anything more than had already been arranged, the others might think her spiteful, or mean.
red's she's gone!
anything, she said. I don't think we did nearly enough. I think a girl who openly says she's jolly well going to make herself too beastly to stay more than half a term ought to be well shown up!
room, =Mirabel played some of the melodies she loved. She forgot the girls in the common room, she forgot =StClare's, she forgot herself. She was a real little musician, and she put all her heart into the music she loved.
school played the violin very well, but =Mirabel made it speak. The notes rang out pure and true, and =Anna was amazed that her violin could produce such music.
say! You are marvelous, said =Pat, her eyes shining.
think you were trying to settle down and be happy, said =Mirabel. It must make her very miserable indeed to feel you are so lonely and sad. I should think it would make her worse.
thought I was happy here, and getting other interests, she would think I was forgetting her.
was =Hilary or =Anna, so that she might know the best way of tackling someone like =Gladys. Don't you want your mother to be proud of you?
feast was to be held! They felt certain she would try to spoil it in some way. They had decided to hold it on the night of =Carlotta's birthday, in the common room itself. If they drew the blinds, and shut the door, they were reasonably safe. The common room was a good way from any =Mistress' room, and yet fairly near their own dormitories.
in the room.
the common room. =Elsie! I expect you know I'm having a birthday soon, don't you?
spitefully.
=Carlotta. And every one is coming. The thing is, I'd like you to come too, but only if you'll pull yourself together and act sensibly.
So Miss =Jenks guessed everything, and there was a birthday cake
sitting waiting to be eaten! Good old Miss =Jenks! Girls were
ready to do anything she asked them.
the common room. =Elsie! I expect you know I'm having a birthday soon, don't you?
spitefully.
=Carlotta. And every one is coming. The thing is, I'd like you to come too, but only if you'll pull yourself together and act sensibly.
noticed nothing, though actually all the girls had seen the plate lift and wobble, and were fighting hard to keep from giggling.
imagined it! She began to make conversation again.
she said, smiling round. Then she tried to cut a piece of meat with her knife, whilst =Bobby at the same moment pressed the rubber bulb. Air ran through the bladder, and =Mamzelle's plate lifted iself up very suddenly, and spilt some gravy over one side.
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