Five on Kirrin Island Again

Anne was trying to do some of her prep. in a corner of the common-room when her cousin George came bursting in.George was not a boy; she was a girl called Georgina, but because she had always wanted to be a boy she insisted on being called George. So George she was. She wore her curly hair cut short, and her bright blue eyes gleamed angrily now as she came towards Anne.‘Anne! I’ve just had a letter from home—and what do you think? Father wants to go and live on my island to do some special work—and he wants to build a sort of tower or something in the castle yard!’The other girls looked up in amusement, and Anne held out her hand for the letter that George was waving at her. Everyone knew about the little island off Kirrin Bay that belonged to George. Kirrin Island was a tiny place with an old ruined castle in the middle of it: the home of rabbits and gulls and jackdaws.It had underground dungeons in which George and her cousins had had one or two amazing adventures. It had once belonged to George’s mother, and she had given it to George—and George was very fierce where her precious Kirrin Island was concerned! It was hers. Nobody else must live there, or even land there without her permission.