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Enid Blyton

Five On Kirrin Island Again

eBook ( March 11, 2012)
Famous Five 06 - Five On Kirrin Island Again By Enid Blyton

Chapter One
A LETTER FOR GEORGE
ANNE was trying to do some of her prep. in a corner of the common-room when her
cousin George came bursting in.
George was not a boy; she was a girl called Georgina, but because she had always
wanted to be a boy she insisted on being called George. So George she was. She wore
her curly hair cut short, and her bright blue eyes gleamed angrily now as she came
towards Anne.
'Anne! I've just had a letter from home - and what do you think? Father wants to go and
live on my island to do some special work - and he wants to build a sort of tower or
something in the castle yard!' The other girls looked up in amusement, and Anne held
out her hand for the letter that George was waving at her. Everyone knew about the little
island off Kirrin Bay that belonged to George. Kirrin Island was a tiny place with an old
ruined castle in the middle of it: the home of rabbits and gulls and jackdaws.
It had underground dungeons, in which George and her cousins had had one or two
amazing adventures. It had once belonged to George's mother, and she had given it to
George - and George was very fierce where her precious Kirrin Island was concerned! It
was hers. Nobody else must live there, or even land there without her permission.
And now, dear me, here was her father proposing to go to her island, and even build
some sort of workshop there! George was red with exasperation.
'It's just like grown-ups; they go and give you things, and then act as though the things
were theirs all the time. I don't want Father living on my island, and building nasty messy
sheds and things there.' 'Oh George - you know your father is a very
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