The Abbey Girls Play Up
Elsie J. Oxenham
eBook
(Reading Essentials, June 3, 2020)
Little Cecily, of the shining read hair and volatile temper holds the centre of the stage, from the minute she is discovered behind a thorn bush piping her favourite dance-tunes on a penny whistle. That starts Maribel and Rosalind, Mrs. Raymond and Lady Marchwood, eagerly planning a musical future for the red-headed "Pied Piper" whose perfect rhythm can set their feet tapping at once. The Abbey Girls Play Up is simply full of lively and interesting people who, as well as planning Cecily's future, make the happiest discoveries about her lost French childhood.