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What makes a girl truly nice when friendship, loyalty and growing up put kindness to the test?
In The Nicest Girl in the School, Angela Brazil brings you into the close world of boarding school. Girls live, eat, study and play together, far from their families. Friendship sits at the centre of this shared life, where learning to understand other people matters as much as learning lessons.
Growing up here means more than good manners. It means managing a temper, taking responsibility and seeing someone else more fairly. This gentle school story invites you to consider what kindness really asks of a person, and how loyalty and courage belong beside it.
What you’ll discover
- A world shared daily Enter a boarding school where living and learning together brings friendship into everyday life.
- Friendship at the centre Spend time with schoolgirls whose close bonds make loyalty more than a pleasant word.
- The question of kindness Look beyond good manners to consider the courage and care that being nice may require.
- The work of growing up Explore the sometimes painful task of taking responsibility and learning to judge others more fairly.
- An old-fashioned school story Discover Angela Brazil's warm approach to girls' school life, with friendship at its heart.
Who will love it
This is for readers who love school stories, midnight feasts, hockey sticks and loyal friends, and for anyone who enjoys a warm, old-fashioned tale about honesty and kindness.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A girl leaves home with a promise
- Arriving at the Priory and being left alone
- Small kindnesses find Patty her first friends
- An honest mistake and a birthday surprise
- Patty's pledge and the trick on the roof
- Christmas at Thorncroft and a shopping trip
- The Caesar crib and the shadow of suspicion
- Swimming, cricket and Enid's dangerous dare
Who’s who
- Patty HirstA cheerful, honest doctor's daughter from Kirkstone who wants to be happy at Morton Priory and to keep her promise to look after her cousin.
- Muriel PearsonPatty's pretty, vain cousin, spoiled at home and cold at school, who wants to be admired and fears her cousin will lower her standing.
- Enid WalkerA merry, daring girl with a quick tongue who loves mischief, defends Patty fiercely and cannot abide Miss Rowe.
- Jean BannermanA thoughtful new girl from Waverton who becomes one of Patty's closest friends and wants to feel at home.
- Avis WentworthA sweet-voiced, tender-hearted girl who cries easily, struggles with sums and Latin and wants to do the right thing.
- Miss RoweA very young teacher who tries to win respect by strict rules and finds that her pupils are slow to like her.
- Miss HarperThe clever, sharp-tongued form teacher who trusts her girls to be honest and expects the highest standard of work.
- Uncle SidneyPatty's rich uncle, who pays for her schooling and hopes she will be a loyal friend to his daughter.
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Das netteste Mädchen der Schule
by Angela Brazil · 1909
Patty Hirst leaves her big family for a boarding school where her own cousin pretends not to know her.
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What do you do when the cousin you promised to look after will not even say hello? Patty Hirst is thirteen, the eldest of eight children of a busy country doctor in the small town of Kirkstone.
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A girl leaves home with a promise
The story opens in Patty's bedroom in Kirkstone, one day before she leaves. Her mother packs the new trunk with careful stitches and some self-denial. Patty sorts handkerchiefs and hair ribbons and says she is not sure she wants to go at all. She has wished for this school for months, but now the parting feels very close.
Patty has good reason to be nervous. Her cousin Muriel was cold and offhand when Patty visited Thorncroft, and even said she did not see why Patty had to come. Uncle Sidney, though, has written that Patty is a good, conscientious child. He trusts her to treat his girl as her special charge.
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Brazil, Angela. The Nicest Girl in the School. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-nicest-girl-in-the-school.
Brazil, A. (2026). The nicest girl in the school. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-nicest-girl-in-the-school (Original work published 1909)
Brazil, Angela. The Nicest Girl in the School. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-nicest-girl-in-the-school.
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What is The Nicest Girl in the School about?
It follows Patty Hirst, a country doctor's daughter, through her first year at Morton Priory. She wins friends, faces a cold cousin, and keeps a promise to her uncle. School life, honesty and kindness run through every chapter.
Who is Muriel in The Nicest Girl in the School?
Muriel Pearson is Patty's pretty, spoiled cousin, whose father pays for Patty's schooling. Patty has promised to look after her, but Muriel is cold and snobbish and often treats Patty unkindly.
Is The Nicest Girl in the School a true story?
No, it is a work of fiction by Angela Brazil, set in an English boarding school of her day. The school, Morton Priory, and its pupils are invented, though they reflect real school customs of the time.
The author
Angela Brazil
1868–1947 · English children's writer
Angela Brazil (1868–1947) was an English children’s writer born in Preston, Lancashire. She wrote mainly stories about girls at boarding schools. Her books began appearing in 1904 and included The Nicest Girl in the School and The Youngest Girl in the Fifth. She lived in Coventry from 1911 until her death.
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