The Daring Game - Softcover

Pearson, Kit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140319328 ISBN 13: 9780140319323

Publisher: Penguin Global, 2003

Synopsis

Eliza's first year at Ashdown Academy is full of surprises, as she discovers the high cost of friendship when her friend Helen starts the daring game among the five girls in their dorm

About this title

About the Author

Kit Pearson, who has been honored with many major literary children's book awards in her native Canada, lives in Vancouver.

From School Library Journal

Gr 5-8 Eleven-year-old Eliza Chapman has chosen to go to Ashdown Academy, a boarding school in Vancouver, for seventh grade. The year is 1964. Eliza has high hopes for her year at Ashdownher ideas about boarding school having been formed by British novels. The first term goes well, but by the second term, Eliza has doubts about her desire to live away from her family. Matters are further complicated by Eliza's friendship with Helen, an unhappy and mischievous girl who involves Eliza and her dorm mates in the ``daring game.'' The game begins innocently enough with a midnight supper, but soon escalates into an involved scheme that causes Helen to be threatened with expulsion. This is a novel about friendship and life in the dorm. The story centers mostly around Eliza and her four dorm mates. Besides Eliza, Helen is the only fully developed character, but the slowly developing friendship between these two girls is carefully explored. When Eliza fully realizes the reasons for Helen's unhappiness, she becomes such a loyal friend that she jeopardizes her standing at Ashdown. The novel moves slowly, but girls who are fascinated, as Eliza is, by boarding-school life, will find the story enjoyable. Judith L. Olson, Lansdowne-Emrath Branch Library, Lexington, Ky.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Global
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0140319328
• ISBN 13: 9780140319323
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240