A Fourth Form Friendship

Aldred Laurence is an attractive ordinary fourteen-year-old girl who is both

clever and ambitious. When she becomes a new girl at Birkwood Grange, she is

determined to win popularity at any costs and makes friends with Mabel

Farrington who has a great following at Birkwood Grange, partly because of her

appealing personality, and partly because of her impeccable family

connections. Through a mistake, Aldred is credited with a brave deed which she

has not performed, and fearful of losing her friendship with Mabel, she does

not own up. Maintaining her reputation involves Aldred in many awkward

complications. How she is led through her friendship to realise that honour is

worth more than popularity, and how in the end she retrieves her character, is

the purpose of _A Fourth Form Friendship_ to chronicle