Twelve-year-old Flora Fox would do anything not to go to Penrice Hall, the boarding school her parents are shipper her off to because of a family emergency. Penrice has horses and an Olympic-size swimming pool, but flashy facilities won’t change how Flora feels about being sent away and having to make new friends. On the train ride to Penrise, Flora awakens from a nap to find herself transported into the past–1935, to be exact. And instead of a posh prep school, she arrives at St. Winifred’s where she has to speak French at breakfast, wear hideous baggy bloomers, and sleep in a freezing dormitory. Life is bearable only because of Flora’s wonderful roommates Pete, Dulcie, and Pogo, who cast the spell that brought her to St. Winifred’s. They’ve pledged to help Flora get back to her own time–but only after she completes the task she was summoned for. In the meantime, as she rises to the challenges of her strange new life, Flora finds that the joys and complications of growing up are the same no matter what the year. And that when you need them, family will always be there.
- ISBN: 9780385740753
- Author: Saunders, Kate
- Published: 2011 , Random House Digital, Inc.
- Themes: Family, friends, Magic, School, time
- Descriptors: England (UK), Fantasy, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 254