A Difficult Term for the Chalet School

Chalet School - Complete

by Lisa Townsend

A Difficult Term for the Chalet School covers the term between Three Go to the Chalet School and The Chalet School and the Island. This is the term when Annis Lovell arrives at the School, and when things go wrong with the drains. It is the last term at Plas Howell.

Genres: School Stories, Childrens, Fiction, School

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 11, 2010

Reviews

[Katharine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really Really great!

[Keren · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you like CS fill ins this is well worth the read.

Lisa keep to EBDs style of writing.

The details are things we wanted to know.

This book definitely fits in with the chalet school series.

[Readsandeats · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was nice to read this fill and get teh background on some of the characters like Annis. It also expelined more about the reason the Chalet School had to move.

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very similar style to EBD, with the awful Joey acting as the boss of everyone. Imagine if ordinary parents acted the way she did. And heads of a San not knowing what caused an epidemic. Very EBD!

[Verity W · Rating 3 out of 5]

My first Chalet School fill in since Helen McClelland's back in the day. And I enjoyed it and thought the plot and writing were a good match to EBD. I don't remember her using exeat (I first came across it much later) for weekends out, but that was the only think that I really noticed - as I haven't read the whole original Chalets in original form I'm not the best source for accuracy.

I liked this - and I need to go back and read the next book in the series proper to remind myself how this all works out.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well done Lisa. This must have been one of the hardest 'missing terms' to write about, but Lisa makes a good job of it, writing an enjoyable, believeable story.

Her description of Annis and her troubles is very good, giving a beliveable plot, without taking anything away from the plot of Island.

Also she resolves the rathet vague EBD description of the mystrey illness into a plausible, interesting story. A very good fill-in book. Read 'Island' straight after.

[Deborah · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the fill-ins are excellent but I particularly like this one because it does such a good job of piecing together a term we subsequently hear quite a lot about. It even slips in a convincing explanation of how it was possible to pack up and remove an entire school at the drop of a hat at the beginning of Island (everything was completely packed away at the end of term because of the workmen coming in to look at the drains - genius).

[Margaret Conmey · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I started on my first ever read through of the entire series in order I wondered whether to include the fill-in books by other authors and the answer was sometimes, especially if covering on of the missing terms
Ok for a fill-in book and managed to provide good back story for Annis Lovell who features prominently in the next book
Cleaver balancing of providing interesting story to tie in with, but not spoil, the plot of the next book in the series

[Muff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liked it better than I thought I would at the start. Annie's is not one my favorite Chalet girls, and Island is one off my least favorite offs EBD's oeuvre, Townsend does a good job writing about the difficult term, and Island continued seamlessly when I read it right afterward. So I'm upgrading the stars. Good job, Lisa.

[KarenV · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first Chalet School "fill-in" title that I've read and the author did a pretty good job. The characters and style were very much in keeping with EBD and the story moved along at a good pace. I have to say I was skeptical about the idea of the fill-in books but I would read another if it was a good as this one.

[Shawne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Readable with some good ideas on how to fill in the gap between two books in the Chalet School series. But, apart from a very unusual hockey match at half-term, nothing quite stands out about this book, nor does it ultimately recall Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's writing in either style or (sadly) substance. 2.5 stars

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fits into the series seamlessly. The story of Annis continues in The Chalet School And The Island so her story doesn’t resolve in this book.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

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