Set in England, it's set in a boarding school but I don't remember any other girls being around apart from the main character. It might even have been during the school holidays. So not your classic boarding school story.
The lead character's name is Robin, she's sent away to school by her father and (fairly early on in the book) ends up locked in the attic by the evil headmistress who's actually up to something criminal. She escapes, but gets lost on the moors and picked back up by her captors (or someone connected with them).
Can't remember any more than that, but I remember I loved the book and years later I still love the name Robin... I'd like to track it down and see if it really is any good or just average!
It can't have been published any later than 1980, and I would be surprised if it was as late as that. Most of the books I had when I was a kid were from the 1950's and 1960's.
Ringing bells with anyone?
2007-01-24 06:53:05 · 6 answers · asked by Snakey B 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I don't think I've got this right but there is a book by Enid Blyton called 'The Boy Next Door' with a lead character called Robin who goes to boarding school ... but there is no evil headmistress just an evil sort of housekeeper ... there's a synopsis here:
http://www.foxall.com.au/users/mje/BoyNxDor.htm
'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett fits closely as well - but the heroine is called Sarah.
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-31-2004-58666.asp
Perhaps you could try asking the question on this website:
http://www.logan.com/loganberry/stump.html
2007-01-24 15:33:03 · answer #1 · answered by Solow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only bell it rings with me is something published much, much earlier than 1980: "Robins in the Abbey"
by Elsie Jeanette Oxenham. It was one of a series of books set in the Abbey School, starting with a group of girls aged 14-17 years old and ending with their children being about this age, which made it rather different from other books of this kind, where the children remained eternally at the same age!
2007-01-25 02:38:21 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could it be The Wolves of Willoughby Chase? I don't remember it being a school, but it was a big fancy house, and the girl was locked up by criminal housekeeper or something, and there was some sort of smuggling or something going on. I have no idea what the girl's name was though...
2007-01-26 05:14:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds a littlle bit like the little princess
2007-01-24 10:48:26 · answer #4 · answered by tigerlilliebuick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG, somebody wrote about that?? I didn't think anyone else knew about it.
2007-01-24 06:55:57 · answer #5 · answered by anothersomeonenew 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No i dont know that one, but if you get in touch with www.abebooks.com they maybe able to help you.
2007-01-24 09:00:54 · answer #6 · answered by Caroline 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋