When we were kids, much to our mum's chagrin, we were big fans of Enid Blyton and would read over and over her Famous Fives, Faraway Tree, and boarding school books, and it was difficult to get us interested in other authors. Enter Anne Digby (who is clearly herself a fan of Enid Blyton - she has, after all, added her own contributions to the Naughtiest Girl stories). I remember the excitement of discovering another boarding school series new to us, and we loved the Trebizon books. They felt more real and grounded to us than Blyton's prim and proper Malory Towers and St. Clare's, set (and written) in our own time period for starters - and they even had boys in it! (One of the the books is called "Boy Trouble at Trebizon".) I'm now rereading them as an adult.

They are short, fun, cosy, and from what I remember, like this first one, the plot for each is usually centred around one main story (unlike Blyton's). In this, not a lot happens really -

Rebecca writes a poem for the school magazine, only to have it stolen by the sixth former magazine editor and claimed as her own, and Rebecca becomes firm friends with the two girls who take a stand to do something about it.

But it's charming, a solid introduction to the series.