![]() ![]() The “Daring Game” of the title is invented by Helen, and though some of the dares are simple enough to carry out, the last one goes very wrong and embroils Eliza in an impossible dilemma: stand up for a friend, or tell strict the Headmistress, Miss Tavistock, what is going on. ![]() Alternately horrified by and attracted to Helen, Eliza finds herself drawn into a friendship which will have some serious consequences before the year is out. ![]() Her fellow roommates are a widely varied lot: prim and bossy Pam, meek and gentle Jean, friendly Carrie and rambunctious, unpopular Helen. After much persuasion, Eliza is enrolled in Vancouver’s Ashdown Academy for her Grade Seven year, and with only a minor bout of homesickness enters into communal life with great enthusiasm. Her parents’ transfer to Toronto for a year seems like a grand opportunity to fulfill her dream. She’s been reading English school stories for years, and thinks that wearing a uniform, living in a dormitory, and eluding Matron while having midnight feasts would be much more exciting than going to her boring old Edmonton day school. *****Įleven-year-old Elizabeth – Eliza – Chapman has always dreamed of going to boarding school. The intended audience would likely be preteen girls. Rather pedestrian writing, but a decent “school story” with a strongly depicted Canadian setting. ![]()
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