[Gutenberg 32524] • A Fourth Form Friendship: A School Story

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