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Enid Blyton Series: The Famous Five, Malory Towers, the Adventure Series, the Five Find-Outers, the Secret Seven, the Faraway Tree
Enid Blyton Series The Famous Five Malory Towers the Adventure Series the Five FindOuters the Secret Seven the Faraway Tree Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Famous Five, Malory Towers, the Adventure Series, the Five Find-Outers, the Secret Seven, the Faraway Tree, Five Get Into a Fix, St. Clare's, the Wishing C... more »hair, the Barney Mysteries, Mary Mouse, the Naughtiest Girl, the Mistletoe Farm, Five Go Adventuring Again, the Circus Series, the Folk of the Faraway Tree. Excerpt: Five Get into a Fix is a children's novel written by Enid Blyton and published in 1942 by Hodder and Stoughton . It is the seventeenth book in the Famous Five series . Story In the novel the four and their dog Timmy, had the worst Christmas holidays ever with coughs and colds at Julian s house. To recover Julian s mother sends them to a farmhouse, on the hills and beside the seashore, for the last week of the holidays. When they had nearly reached their desination, it was dark, they got a bit lost and drove up a dead-end driveway leading to a large strange old building called "Old Towers" on a lonely hill. They were thinking of asking for directions but the building and grounds were protected by gates and snarling dogs and they hurriedly departed. While going back down the slope their car felt heavier than before, as if someone/something was pulling them. Finally they reach the farmhouse at night. There they met Mrs. Jones (the owner of the farmhouse), ate their dinner and slept like logs. The next morning when the five came down to the dining room for breakfast they met Mrs. Jones son Morgan he has seven dogs and is as strong as ten elephants, his voice can be heard from miles away. When the five went for a walk that day Timmy got bitten on his neck by three savage farm dogs. George and Anne decide to leave next day. Leaving George, Anne and Timmy in the farm house the boys went to a hut and had a lot of fun, on the steep hills without any adult help, just a...« less