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Did anyone read all the Mallory Towers books as a girl? Help!

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Jacksmama · 20/01/2009 20:44

I'm trying to find all the Mallory Towers books. Do any of you know all the titles in the series or where I could find them??
Thank you!!

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SilentTerror · 21/01/2009 20:08

I saved both Malory Towers and St Clare's for my girls,DD2 reading them now,keeps coming out with Blyton-esque phrases that you never hear now!

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Jacksmama · 21/01/2009 20:03

Ahhhh... picked up some of my German translations today and feel transported back to my early teen years

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CioccolataCalda · 21/01/2009 18:25

We have got Malory Towers and St Clares on tape and DDs and DSs love them so much they are nearly worn out. Years old.

LisaLessLumpy · 21/01/2009 18:22

I read the Mallory Towers books as a girl too, I thought they were fabulous

Cosette · 21/01/2009 17:30

I also read Malory Towers and St Clare's, but have to say that the Chalet School books were my favourite - by Elinor M Brent Dyer. Joey and her sister Madge wasn't it?

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Jacksmama · 21/01/2009 17:18

I think it's the decency and how they sort each other out that still appeal to me today...
[old fart fasioned emoticon]

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newpup · 21/01/2009 07:20

Oh I loved all those boarding school books! My DD 9 loves the naughtiest girl and has just read the first mallory towers. They have added a few modern touches though, the money has been updated from shillings! They read so quaint now, all that jolly good humour and decency, still fab though!

I also loved the Trebizon books, anyone read those?

Portofino · 21/01/2009 06:59

Getting up to eat cake in the middle of the night? They must have been the Nigella's of their day!

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Jacksmama · 21/01/2009 00:07

I remember those, no wonder they were all ill the next day!!

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treedelivery · 21/01/2009 00:03

Patricia and Isobel? The twins?

Have both the boxed sets, bought them from a book club for old times sake.

Never saw the appeal of pineapple chunks pressed into gingerbread or anchovy spread if anyone remembers their feasts...

QueenFee · 21/01/2009 00:00

I loved these and St Clares
Also the Chalet School - Anyone else read those?

smartiejake · 20/01/2009 23:52

Yup The O'Sullivan Twins.

There have been some other additions to this series (trying to write in the style of Blyton but not quite making it) that I read to my DD recently but IMHO they were not a patch on the originals.

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Jacksmama · 20/01/2009 22:58

What are the twins' names? Were they the Sullivan Twins? Because if they were I loved those books too!!

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Portofino · 20/01/2009 22:50

I loved these and the Twins at St Clare's. I too was desperate to go to Boarding School.

My dd loves the CDs of the Naughtiest Girl in the school. She is nearly 5 and I do wonder what she makes of it all. When i listen, they all sound very "precious".

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Jacksmama · 20/01/2009 22:41

Oh. Doesn't sound that appealing.
Do you remember the title?

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solidgoldsoddingjanuaryagain · 20/01/2009 22:40

There have been some moderately recent additions - I know this because I found one on the library that I had never heard of.
Odd and not good - it is written by some hack 'in the style of' and fills in a missing term, but it's just peculiary because she/he is writing with a modern sensibility but imitating Blyton's prose style.

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Jacksmama · 20/01/2009 22:37

LOL Milliways!

Smartie, if they haven't been they sure should be, I loved them!!!

And for all of you who probably have no desire to don't know, lacrosse is the national sport of Canada. Not hockey, as everyone seems to think. And no, that's not a marijuana leaf on our flag, either!!!

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Milliways · 20/01/2009 22:33

When DD read them she asked "What's lacrosse". "Nothing you'll ever get to play" was the jist of my response

Funny thing is, DS's school play lacrosse from about Yr 10.

LightShinesInTheDarkness · 20/01/2009 22:29

I read these and sooo wanted to go to boarding school.
I didn't find out what lacrosse is until I was about 23 though!

smartiejake · 20/01/2009 22:27

OOOH do you think they have been translated back into English!

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Jacksmama · 20/01/2009 22:22

I grew up in Germany and they're translated into German, they were my favourite books!! But in the German translation, there are 18 books, not 6. It takes the main character all the way through post-secondary study, marriage, having a baby and then becoming Head of School of Mallory Towers at the end of the last book.
Hmmm. Maybe the German publishers took the original English story and just ran with it, the series was enormously popular.

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PoloPlayingMummy · 20/01/2009 21:42

ahh this brings back happy memories .

muggglewump · 20/01/2009 21:41

I loved them and have quite a few now. I buy them if I ever see them in the Charity Shop. Not the School ones but I bought a Faraway Tree Omnibus type one last week.

I always found Darrell a sap and a goody Fwiw and wanted to be Alicia!

smartiejake · 20/01/2009 21:38

I am reliving my childhood at the mo reading these to my dd. We finished the "In the Fifth." one yesterday. Only one more to read before they are finished.

Have also read all the St Clare's books with her too.

I got them from lots of different places but think that Amazon will have them and also got some from Waterstones. Failing that you can order them from the library.

mynaughtylittlesister · 20/01/2009 20:57

I have just had a look on The Book Peoples site and at the moment it doesn't look like they have them in.

I have to admit, I tend to go there first before looking elsewhere!