The Chalet School Goes To It (hardback)
The Chalet School at War (paperback)
Key Facts (Possible Spoilers)
School facts
Miss Annersley is Headmistress (Mademoiselle Lepāttre died the previous autumn)
The School is in its second term on Guernsey at the start of the story
Whereabouts of series characters
Jo Maynard moves with the School to Armiford and settles in Plas Gwyn with the (roughly) six-month old Triplets
Cornelia Flower is Head Girl
Robin Humphries is a Prefect
Daisy Venables is thirteen and in the Third Form
Beth Chester is thirteen and in the Third Form
Betty Wynne-Davies and Elizabeth Arnett have their own ideas about hunting the Spy, which lead to Gwensi, Beth Chester and Daisy Venables being lost for several hours.
Betty Wynne-Davies asks Gwensi whether Plas Howell has any secret passages (thinking that The Spy might be using them). Gwensi takes Beth and Daisy to a secret place of hers, a tunnel between the bushes, and they encounter poachers. While Elizabeth, influenced by Gillian Linton, begins to grow up, Betty is hurt by her coolness and shows no sign of reforming.
The message dropped in the air-raid is from Karl Linders, brother of Emmie and Joanna: he is a reluctant member of the Luftwaffe but later becomes a prisoner of the Allies. Emmie and Joanna are still in Germany.
The end-of-term wedding is that of Simone who marries André de Bersac in Armiford. Jo finds them lodgings two miles away, and so Simone can stay on at the School.
Information about Old Girls and others
Miss Wilson is teaching science and geography, Grizel Cochrane is in charge of Music, Simone Lecoutier is teaching Mathematics, Gillian Linton is Kindergarten assistant
Miss Stewart plans to move with the school, but her fiancé comes home before the evacuation, and she leaves to be married. Her replacement is Mary Burnett, former Head Girl. Juliet Carrick (now O'Hara) has had a son, and is moving near to the School.
Margia Stevens, in Australia when war broke out, is now on tour in South Africa. Simone's sister and parents arrive in Guernsey and follow the School to England, and the Ozanne, Chester and Lucy families have all moved to the Armiford area.
Frieda von Ahlen is sent to the Isle of Man to be interned as an alien; her husband Bruno is in the Polish Legion. By the end of the book, she is released and they are reunited in England.
contributed by Angela Woodgates, England __ working from a hardback edition