September marks the return to school for many children and young adults around the world. For readers here at Faded Page, it could mean a return to fictional school series, some beloved from our own childhoods and others new to discover.

In September 2021, we had featured a few of the popular series that we offer, and we repeat them here:

• The St. Clare’s series by beloved English author Enid Blyton starts with The Twins at St. Clare’s, featuring sisters Patricia and Isabel O’Sullivan. A Japanese anime adaptation, Mischievous Twins: The Tales of St. Clare’s, was produced in 1991.
• The Abbey Series was written by Elsie Jeannette Dunkerley writing as Elsie J. Oxenham. It is set in a fictional boarding school in the west of England and one of its major themes is folk dancing, which is described throughout the books. The series starts with The Girls of the Hamlet Club but the main characters of the series are introduced in the second book, The Abbey Girls.
• Sports enthusiasts will enjoy Ralph Henry Barbour’s Football Eleven and Yardley Hall series. Each book in the former series features a character playing one of the eleven (American) football positions, while the latter series features different sports, such as cross-country running in Winning His “Y”: A Story of School Athletics.

We are pleased to add a new author of juvenile school series: Dorita Fairlee Bruce (1885-1970), a Scottish children who wrote the popular Dimsie series among others. We have recently added The School on the Moor, set in Dartmoor and published in 1931. We are currently working on adding more of Bruce’s novels to our collection.

You can find a list of all our school stories here. You can help us in our endeavour to complete these series by volunteering to proofread a few pages. For more information, go to Distributed Proofreaders Canada.