So what’s it all about?The Malory Towers paperback books are a collection set in picturesque Cornwall where readers will follow the main character Darrell Rivers and her life at an all girls’ boarding school which is encompassed by beautiful scenic views of the sea. Young readers can truly visualise the setting as they read along as the author executed this delightfully helping readers to use their imagination. On the cliff sides, there is a building which is shaped almost like a castle, with each corner a tall round pillar that represents the four different houses: North, East, South, West and housing 40 girls in each form.
But this plot wouldn’t be complete without a captivating storyline. Readers will be introduced to key characters and continue their six-year journey at the boarding school which sees many adventures and experiences along the way.
As the protagonist (Darrell Rivers) arrives upon her first day in the boarding school, she is greeted with the Headmistress Miss Grayling’s motivational speech in welcoming the girls to the school, Rivers is moved and she becomes excited and feels inspired. But Darrell has one thing she must really control, and that is her temper.
From this day forward, Rivers has set herself the goal to become one of the successful students of the establishment. Rivers remains strong and determined until she encounters the difficulties of getting along with other classmates, with each character with their own unique side and personality, Rivers is headstrong, she has a hot temperament and often gets into unexpected situations. River’s schoolfellows includes Alicia with a rude behaviour along with her friend Betty, that enjoys bringing a class lesson into chaos, Sally who’s a dependable student, Mary who is always timid and a vindictive and malicious student Gwendoline Mary Lacey.
In this story, we follow the girls through six years, we can see the challenges they face which can be empathised for many young girls and boys in school. Each student works hard, plays hard, achieves success and failure and all face happiness and setbacks at the same time. In spite of all of this and the many inexperienced and immature sides of each student, Miss Grayling has not given and though she has extremely high promise and expectations of them, Grayling works hard to change these students and help them grow into strong dependable women that people can rely on.
Titles in this collection include:
First Term At Malory Towers
Darrell Rivers is off to boarding school for the first time. She quickly settles down and makes new friends. But the first term is not all fun and Darrell has some tricky problems to cope with.
Second Form At Malory Towers
Darrell, Sally, Gwendoline, Mary-Lou and all the other girls from First Term at Malory Towers are now in the second form and they are all as lively as ever.
Third Year At Malory Towers
The girls return for another term to find several new girls in their form. There are some hair-raising incidents as the new girls settle down for an enjoyable and eventful term at Malory Towers.
Upper Fourth At Malory Towers
The Upper Fourth promises to be another exciting year at Malory Towers. This year there is the tension of exams but there is all the fun of the summer term as well, and the high spirits of a lively and imaginative form of girls.
In the Fifth At Malory Towers
Games, lessons, quarrels, rows and tricks all form part of a very lively term for Darrell and her friends, but the biggest event of all is the fifth form pantomime produced entirely by the girls.
Last Term At Malory Towers
A work about the girls at Malory Towers in which Darrell becomes Head Girl and finds her last term at Malory Towers is a lively and dramatic one.
New Term at Malory Towers
Darrell has left, and Felicity is head of the third form. And what a lot she has to deal with – June and new girl Freddie playing tricks continually, the sickly Bonnie shadowing her, and the stuck-up Amy, who has a strange family secret.
Summer Term at Malory Towers
There’s a mystery at the nearby stables – someone has stolen money and then poor Julie’s horse. Can the third form help old girls Bill and Clarissa discover who is behind it?
Winter Term at Malory Towers
Susan is excited to be in charge of the winter concert, but Miss Tallant, a new teacher, has very strong ideas about it. And when she interferes in a midnight feast, they realise there’s a spy in their midst. But who could it be?
Fun and Games at Malory Towers
New girl Millicent clashes with the feisty June over the school’s priorities: a music concert or tennis tournament? But both pale into insignificance when it’s found there’s a thief in the fifth form.
Secrets at Malory Towers
Felicity is Head Girl of Malory Towers! Eager to prove herself, she has her hands full with naughty first formers, and a very mysterious new form-mate who is strangely familiar.
Goodbye Malory Towers
After taking their Higher Certificate, the sixth formers want to relax this term. But the Head has a surprise: a finishing school course, with old girl Gwendoline Lacey as a teacher. Yet someone is determined to drive her out – and it takes the return of Darrell to solve the mystery.
