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The Naughtiest Girl #6
The Naughtiest Girl Helps a Friend
When Elizabeth and her best friend Joan spend half term on a school camping trip, Joan is elected Tent Monitor, but because Joan is scared of the dark and won't admit it, she keeps getting into trouble. But Elizabeth has a plan to help her out.
153 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1999
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Anne Digby
99 books60 followersAnne Digby is a popular British children's author, best known for her fourteen-book Trebizon series, set at a large boarding school. In addition to her own Trebizon books, Digby has contributed new volumes to Enid Blyton's Naughtiest Girl series.
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November 14, 2016
This is the 6th book in the Naughtiest Girl series and this time Elizabeth and her best friend Joan have stayed at school for the half term holidays where they are camping on school grounds. Joan is a tent monitor who has to keep the other girls in the tent in order and look after one particular girl Teeny who is struggling fitting in. Elizabeth's enemy Arabella is also in the same tent so she is finding keeping her temper quite difficult. Anyway Elizabeth can't work out why Joan is behaving strangely and sets out to find out what is wrong. This book was quite enjoyable as it wasn't set inside the school so it was a little bit different from the rest of the series I have read so far.
August 12, 2012
I liked character of Joan and Elizabith.really this book gave me immence pleassure and imagination.Thank you My school Kerala Smajam library that provide me this book.
March 18, 2019
#2019 #YearInBooks Books 30.
The kids are camping out and Elizabeth is reunited with Joan, put in the same tent as a shy junior Tina and the troublemaking Arabella. Yes, the adventure outside is fun but I liked this book for its definition of courage.
Four more books to go, and I am loving the series. It's bringing happiness, and I think reading should do just that.
The kids are camping out and Elizabeth is reunited with Joan, put in the same tent as a shy junior Tina and the troublemaking Arabella. Yes, the adventure outside is fun but I liked this book for its definition of courage.
Four more books to go, and I am loving the series. It's bringing happiness, and I think reading should do just that.
June 28, 2016
Read directly after the last, it was refreshing to follow along with Elizabeth once more. This one deals with an unusual aspect of Whyteleafe School; the holidays! What the children get up to at half term has never really occurred to me, as we don't have one in Australia. This time they are having a camp within the school for any student not going away, and of course Elizabeth finds mischief! Another good story, and introduces some more new characters too. Four stars.
July 24, 2015
Very disappointing - the original Enid Blyton 'naughtiest girl' series was one of my favourite sets of books growing up, but this was just a bland immitation.
It felt like a stretch to give it 2 stars. :-(
It felt like a stretch to give it 2 stars. :-(
August 21, 2011
i love reading
November 14, 2021
Thank you for being with me in my childhood❤❤
a must-read
https://youtu.be/loScwIG36dk
a must-read
https://youtu.be/loScwIG36dk
October 5, 2024
The second Naughtiest Girl continuation novel written Anne Digby. The first one was good and I thought very much in the style and spirit of the original stories in this series by Enid Blyton. This one, however, kind of misses the mark.
It's set in a school camp during the midterm holidays. The children who don't go home at that time get to do a camp which consists of a group of tents set on school property.
However, camps are supposed to be fun, and you get none of that in this book. Elizabeth's camp experience seems to be trying to help her friend Joan, who is "tent monitor" of her tent, do a good job. However, Joan is incredibly inept in this book. Their time is spent in extremely petty intrigues against the awful Arabella, who is also in their tent. Even the school meeting takes part in these petty intrigues, instead of telling them to grow up and fix it on their own. Also, they spend a lot of time looking after teeny, the junior member of their tent, who is an extremely shy girl who acts like she's a kindergartener and needs constant supervision to keep alive.
In the beginning everything Elizabeth does to help Joan backfires, but in the end they will be vindicated.
Anne Digby really does try to write a good story arc here, but the whole thing doesn't come out right because everything is so joyless, and the situations so contrived and absurd. I think the change of setting didn't work well, since Digby didn't have a clear template to follow. Also, this series probably didn't need continuation novels, given that it's so focused on the problems of the title character, and for her to keep getting into the same sort of misunderstandings and good-intentioned bad decisions, it negates her character growth in the previous books.
It's set in a school camp during the midterm holidays. The children who don't go home at that time get to do a camp which consists of a group of tents set on school property.
However, camps are supposed to be fun, and you get none of that in this book. Elizabeth's camp experience seems to be trying to help her friend Joan, who is "tent monitor" of her tent, do a good job. However, Joan is incredibly inept in this book. Their time is spent in extremely petty intrigues against the awful Arabella, who is also in their tent. Even the school meeting takes part in these petty intrigues, instead of telling them to grow up and fix it on their own. Also, they spend a lot of time looking after teeny, the junior member of their tent, who is an extremely shy girl who acts like she's a kindergartener and needs constant supervision to keep alive.
In the beginning everything Elizabeth does to help Joan backfires, but in the end they will be vindicated.
Anne Digby really does try to write a good story arc here, but the whole thing doesn't come out right because everything is so joyless, and the situations so contrived and absurd. I think the change of setting didn't work well, since Digby didn't have a clear template to follow. Also, this series probably didn't need continuation novels, given that it's so focused on the problems of the title character, and for her to keep getting into the same sort of misunderstandings and good-intentioned bad decisions, it negates her character growth in the previous books.
July 27, 2024
Elizabeth Allen is excited to be going to a half-term camp - a chance to be with her best friend Joan. Joan is anxious about her responsibilities as tent monitor and Elizabeth is determined to help her shine. But being in a tent with awful Arabella and nervous Teeny seems to cause nothing but problems…
It’s nice to see Joan and Elizabeth reunited, but everyone seems too determined to believe the worst of Elizabeth and the best of Arabella, while Joan is just a bit on the wet side of quiet for me. And as ever in children’s books we are given a detailed description of all the camping arrangements except one.
It’s nice to see Joan and Elizabeth reunited, but everyone seems too determined to believe the worst of Elizabeth and the best of Arabella, while Joan is just a bit on the wet side of quiet for me. And as ever in children’s books we are given a detailed description of all the camping arrangements except one.
March 8, 2018
In this story, Elizabeth tries to be a good friend to Joan. She does manage to help but it takes a few missteps to get it right in the end. I was a bit disappointed that Arabella was not addressed for her part of the last problem with Teeny at the special meeting. She lost her tent monitor status but no mention during the meeting!
March 24, 2021
I could connect with the mischief and fun through and through. A must read for every school-girl. After all, only work and no play would make us such prudes!
A story that would resonate with every school girl across ages and generations.
A story that would resonate with every school girl across ages and generations.
April 9, 2021
I have always loved the friendship between Elizabeth and Joan in this series. In this book by Anne Digby, Elizabeth helps her friend overcome a big and embarrassing problem, helps Teeny to make friends and Arabella gets her comeuppance at last as her selfish nature is revealed.
March 17, 2026
Fun, entertaining book. The kids are camping outside on the school grounds over a break. New environment - nice variation in the series.
New author has unexpected benefited the series - a rare thing. :-)
New author has unexpected benefited the series - a rare thing. :-)
January 26, 2018
it is very nice
June 7, 2019
Good book
June 16, 2019
Perhaps my least favourite of the series but it was great to have more of Elizabeth and Joan's friendship
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June 14, 2022
Amazing book! My favroite series ever!
July 31, 2022
Sweet book
January 28, 2023
Not a very great book compared to the other books in this series (The Naughtiest Girl), only read it to follow the storyline. (Wouldn't recommend it to anyone.)
May 28, 2024
هذا أجمل جزء
أتوقع لأنه الشخصيات الأبرز فيه هي الفتيات
أتوقع لأنه الشخصيات الأبرز فيه هي الفتيات
October 1, 2024
Perfect.
July 12, 2025
Fun and exciting as always! So happy that this series still continues on!
October 4, 2025
It was very different than rest of the books and I loved it!
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January 18, 2026
This was good although wasn’t very challenging and was a very good chill book after reading a huge book.
March 21, 2026
Not written by Enid Blyton. But same character etc as the original series. This story is more a moral tone...explaining to children the value in being a good friend.
September 3, 2021
Good before the bed listening!
February 15, 2026
Brilliant continuation book 😁
September 12, 2018
This series is the one that introduced me to Enid Blyton’s books and it remains my favourite of all till date.
Elizabeth is a spoilt brat who is sent to Whyteleafe so that she can learn and be disciplined. Even there she comes to be known as the naughtiest girl in school. But slowly she blossoms into a wonderful girl (who can be bratty if she wants to be) with slight push from her teachers and a lot of help from her friends.
The series led me to romanticize the life at a boarding school (which I later experienced for myself) and taught me a lot of life lessons. I particularly loved how the girls formed a group to make decisions and solve any problems on their own.
There’s a lot of lessons to be learnt from these pages and I consider this series to be one of the must reads for every child (boy or girl) while growing up.
Elizabeth is a spoilt brat who is sent to Whyteleafe so that she can learn and be disciplined. Even there she comes to be known as the naughtiest girl in school. But slowly she blossoms into a wonderful girl (who can be bratty if she wants to be) with slight push from her teachers and a lot of help from her friends.
The series led me to romanticize the life at a boarding school (which I later experienced for myself) and taught me a lot of life lessons. I particularly loved how the girls formed a group to make decisions and solve any problems on their own.
There’s a lot of lessons to be learnt from these pages and I consider this series to be one of the must reads for every child (boy or girl) while growing up.
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