This is another hair raising term for Darell and her friends. When they go back to Malory Towers (thats their boarding school) they find they have three new girls though their personalities couldn't be any more different. Bill, short for Wilhelmina, is totally into horses and she has got seven brothers; imagine that. Mavis with her "wunneful" voice, well that's what Zerelda the other new girl would say, something happens this term what makes Mavis think a bit harder. Zerelda an American girl with her own ways but soon she settles down like a normal schoolgirl.