FAQ - Examples of past Book Discussions

NOTE: This list may not show every discussion between September 2000 and Nov 2004, and no book discussions prior to September 2000 as the server they were archived on no longer exists.

2004:

Jan: Guiding
Feb: Monica Edwards
Mar: Brontes in GO - Antonia Forest - Peter's Room; Rachel Ferguson - The Brontes Went to Woolworths; Kathleen Wallace -The Prize Essay; Pauline Clarke - The Twelve and the Genii
Apr: Stepfamilies
May: Josephine Pullein-Thompson - Six Ponies, The Radney Riding Club, One Day Event, Pony
Club Team, Pony Club Camp Jun: Elsie J Oxenham - the development of Rosamund throughout the Abbey series Jul: Angela Brazil - The Third Class at Miss Kaye's, The Head Girl at the Gables, St Catherine's College, The School on the Moor
Aug: Olympics and sports
Sep-Oct: Susan Coolidge - Katy series (What Katy Did, What Katy Did at School, What Katy Did Next, Clover, In the High Valley)
Oct: Elinor M Brent-Dyer - La Rochelle series
Nov: When Sweet Violets Sicken - Illness in GO

2003:

Jan: LMM
Feb: Elfrida Vipont - Lark in the Morn, Lark on the Wing, The Spring of the Year
Mar: Jean Estoril (Mabel Esther Allan) - Drina series
Apr: Grand Tours of Europe in GO Fiction - included Alcott - Good Wives, Maud Hart Lovelace - Betsy and the Great World, Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did Next
May-Jun: Nursing books
Jul: Writing and Authorship as a Career in GO Fiction
Aug: Dorita Fairlie Bruce - Nancy series
Dec: Christmas books
2002:
Jan: Elizabeth Enright - Melendy series (The Saturdays, The Four Story Mistake, Then There Were Five, Spiderweb For Two
Feb: Shakespeare as a character - Geoffrey Trease - Cue for Treason; Antonia Forest - Player's
Boy, Players and the Rebels; Susan Cooper - King of Shadows
Mar: Jane Shaw - Susan series Apr:
Elsie J Oxenham - Biddy's Secret, Abbey Girls at Home, New Abbey Girls
May: College books - Jean Webster - Daddy Long-Legs and LT Meade - A Sweet Girl Graduate Jun: Margaret Biggs - Melling series
Jul: Maud Hart Lovelace - Betsy Tacy books
Aug: Evelyn Smith - Binkie of IIIB, Seven Sisters at Queen Anne's Sep: KM Peyton - Flambards, The Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer, Flambards Divided
Oct: Eileen Dunlop - A Flute in Mayferry Street, Fox Farm, Robinsheugh, Valley of Deer
Nov: Royalty at school - included The Princess of the Chalet School, Brenda of
Beech House
Dec: Christmas books

2001:

Jan: Clare Mallory - Merry trilogy and Leith & Friends
Feb: Pamela Brown - Swish of the Curtain and Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes Mar: Enid Blyton - Malory Towers Apr: Sally Odgers - Another Good Friend, All the Sea Between
May: Angela Brazil - Fourth Form Friendship, Youngest Girl in the Fifth
Jun: Josephine Elder - Farm School books (Annis in Exile, Cherry Tree Perch, Strangers at The Farm School)
Jul: Nancy Breary - Junior Captain, The Impossible Prefect, It Was Fun in the Fourth
Aug: Lorna Hill - first 9 Wells titles (from A Dream of Sadler's Wells up to and including Principal Role)
Sep: Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials trilogy
Oct: Dorita Fairlie Bruce - Springdale series (Captain of Springdale, The Best House in the School, The New House Captain, Captain Anne, Prefects at Springdale)
Nov: Anne Digby - Trebizon series
Dec: Arthur Ransome

2000:

Sep: Tessa Duder - Alex quartet (Alex, Alex in Winter, Alessandra: Alex in Rome, Songs for Alex)
Oct: Susan Coolidge - Katy series (What Katy Did, What Katy Did at School, What Katy Did Next, Clover, In the High Valley)

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