Fresh from a London comprehensive, Rebecca Mason is plunged into life at Trebizon, the famous boarding school for girls. Lonely and anxious to prove herself, Rebecca decides to write something for the school magazine. But the piece that appears is not the one she intended and she unwittingly triggers a row which rocks the school. It's a good thing Rebecca has some new friends on her side!

Right from the start of Rebecca Mason's second term at Trebizon School, Tish Anderson behaves most oddly. Why is she suddenly so keen for Sue Murdoch to compete for the Music Scholarship? Then When Sue's secret ambition to become captain of the hockey team looks close to being fulfilled, Tish adamantly opposes her. With her two best friends at loggerheads, Rebecca is caught in a real dilemma.

Rebecca has never been very good at maths. But now, if she doesn't improve, she'll go into the B form and be separated from Tish, Sue and the rest of her friends. So why does Max, the handsome new maths teacher, ignore her and devote his attention instead to Roberta Jones? And who stole the money raised for charity from the sponsored surfing competition?

Before the end of her first term in the Third Year Rebecca begins to wish she'd never met Robbie, Tish's car-mad brother. For Robbie is accused of joy-riding and Rebecca discovers that clearing him is likely to cost her her big chance in tennis - a place in the county squad.

Mara the Greek tycoon's daughter arrives at the beginning of term with a huge bodyguard. She bitterly resents the constant presence at the school of Papa and his bullet-proof limousine - but is she really in danger of being kidnapped? When Mara disappears, Rebecca and her friends' desperate search reveals more than one surprise.

A beautiful new party dress, selection for the first tennis team ... Rebecca's summer term seems set to be a very happy one. But after a hoax fire alarm call to the Principal in the middle of the night Rebecca is suspeced of being the culprit. And why does Pippa, her tennis partner and favourite prefect, suddenly lose her form, endangering Trebizon's chances of winning the tennis cup?

Rebecca Mason had been expecting to go on holiday with her parents at the end of her year in the Third at Trebizon School. But a last-minute telegram and a fruitless journey to Bath result in her returning unexpectedly to join her friends, helping with the children's summer camp in the school grounds. And looking after Tommy Carter provides plenty of drama. But when he becomes involved in Mrs Lazarus' excavation for Roman coins in nearby Mulberry Cove, Rebecca and her friends are in for even more than they bargained.

As Rebecca and Tish race up the stairs in Court House to begin their year in the Fourth at Trebizon School, two thing occupy their minds. The first and most immediate is to secure adjoining rooms on the second floor so that the six friends can still be together. The second concerns Tish's hopes of becoming Head of Games - almost a foregone conclusion - and her plans for the seven-a-side hockey team. But a new girl, Ingrid Larsson, the Swedish 'Ice Queen' as Tish calls her, is forced upon them, throwing a spanner in the works in more ways than Rebecca could possibly imagine.

It may be hockey term at Trebizon but tennis continues to dominate Rebecca's life. And all term she worries whether Joss Vining really thinks she should give up her tennis hopes. There are other questins, too, for Rebecca and her friends that are just as intriguing. Can the new girl, Fiona, really see the future in the old bathroom light fitting she uses as a crystal ball? And will Tish's unusual tactics help Trebizon win the national hockey tournament?

'Holly Thomas!' Rebecca gasped. At the time it seemed such a good idea to help the shy First Year girl with the limp by taking her on their first run. But as the summer term at Trebizon school passes, Rebecca, Sue and Tish find that their concern for Holly backfires in more ways than one. Then a film crew arrives to make a documentary about the school, even filming Rebecca's longed for tennis match with Joss Vining. But no one realizes who the glamorous Miss Angel really is until the crew has gone!

If only that deer hadn't leapt out in front of the car as they were driving back to Trebizon for the start of Rebecca's year in the fifth! With tennis and hockey ruled out because of her broken wrist, and Robbie blaming herself for the accident, Rebecca has only her GCSE course work to look forward to. Until, that is, she meets Cliff. Along with a ghostly figure, a strange cat and a stealthy intruder in Court House, he provides the excitement and intrigue to be expected.

Rebecca can hardly wait to tell her friends the amazing news! But difficult choices lie ahead in her fifth year at Trebizon School. Should she stick to tennis and become a professional or concentrate on exams and a place at university? What about the school trip to Paris and all her friends she's be leaving behind? Especially Sue and Tish, Robbie and Cliff!

Rebecca's never met her French pen friend but they feel like sisters and tell each other their secrets. No wonder she keeps Emmanuelle's letters safe. Safe, that is, until her bedside locker's raided and the letters tampered with. Who could do such an unthinkable thing? Somehow, before she can face Emmanuelle in person in Paris, she must find out what's going on. But how? Because, as Tish says: "Looks like Action Committee's weirdest one yet." As well as the Trebizon books, Straw Hat ebook collectables also publish Alan Davidson's classic schoolgirl comedies [A Friend Like Annabel, Just Like Annabel, etc.] and Anne Digby's Jill Robinson Adventure Series—more fun, friendship and mystery titles for readers to collect and enjoy. REVIEW ' The thirteenth book in Anne Digby's splendid series of stories about Trebizon School is as zestful and well constructed as all the earlier books about this famous fictional girls' boarding school. In this adventure the heroine, Rebecca Mason, is involved in taking her mock GCSE exams. She has convincingly matured and gone from junior to senior forms as the series has progressed. There are, as always, excitements and challenges - and a mystery which Rebecca and her friends tackle with their usual panache' - COLLECTORS' DIGEST

Long summer days, the Commemoration Ball ... picnics and sailing in Mulberry Cove. The end of the GCSE year looks set to be unforgettable as Rebecca plans her French pen friend's return visit. Bun in a term full of dramatic happenings, nothing could be stranger then the way Emmanuelle behaves. Could everything they have shared really be lost? Rebecca can't believe that, whatever Tish and the others might think ...