Five On Kirrin Island Again
Enid Blyton
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(, March 11, 2012)
Famous Five 06 - Five On Kirrin Island Again By Enid BlytonChapter OneA LETTER FOR GEORGEANNE was trying to do some of her prep. in a corner of the common-room when hercousin George came bursting in.George was not a boy; she was a girl called Georgina, but because she had alwayswanted to be a boy she insisted on being called George. So George she was. She woreher curly hair cut short, and her bright blue eyes gleamed angrily now as she cametowards Anne.'Anne! I've just had a letter from home - and what do you think? Father wants to go andlive on my island to do some special work - and he wants to build a sort of tower orsomething in the castle yard!' The other girls looked up in amusement, and Anne heldout her hand for the letter that George was waving at her. Everyone knew about the littleisland off Kirrin Bay that belonged to George. Kirrin Island was a tiny place with an oldruined 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 twoamazing adventures. It had once belonged to George's mother, and she had given it toGeorge - and George was very fierce where her precious Kirrin Island was concerned! Itwas 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 buildsome 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 thingswere theirs all the time. I don't want Father living on my island, and building nasty messysheds and things there.' 'Oh George - you know your father is a very