The School At The Chalet

The School at the Chalet is the first book in the Chalet School Series. It was published in 1925 by W. & R. Chambers.

Synopses
After their guardian passes away leaving the Bettanys affairs in turmoil, Madge Bettany decides to start up a school in the Austrian Tirol, taking her younger sister Joey with her. She engages Mademoiselle LePattre as a mistress and gains some new pupils, including Simone Lecoutier and Grizel Cochrane. Once in the Tirol a number of day girls also come up.

The school thrives and expands with ease. Simone attaches herself to Joey and becomes jealous of Jo's other friends easily, leading her to cut all of her hair off. The school have a couple of run-ins with a Frau Berlin. Juliet Carrick joins the school and she causes trouble for the school, leading Grizel and some of the others into trouble with the Prefects and Staff. However, after being abandoned by her parents she comes to become part of the Chalet School family and turns a new leaf.

After a week of successful and silly pranks, Grizel decides to Vaseline the school chalkboards, which Madge does not find so amusing. She punishes Grizel by essentially isolating her, leading Grizel to run off to attempt to climb the Tiernjoch. After Grizel is discovered missing Jo realizes what she's up to and goes after her. Both girls have to be rescued and become ill from the experience.

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