Résumé
Résumé de Caps et espiègleries
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
This book will please readers who love cosy school stories, warm friendships, harmless pranks and wise teachers, and anyone who enjoys a gentle tale of a lonely girl learning to trust and to give.
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Caps and Capers is a school story by Gabrielle E. Jackson, set in the early twentieth century and written for girls of about Toinette's age. The author says she is telling of boarding-school life as she saw it herself, and she dedicates the book to the girls of a school that made her winter happy. It follows one winter and spring at Sunny Bank, a school in Montcliff where the headmistress, Miss Preston, believes in trust instead of rules.
The heart of the book is Toinette Reeve, a rich and lonely girl of nearly fourteen. Her widowed father has left her for six years in a cold school run by two sisters who watch every move. When he comes home and places her in a very different school, she has to learn that adults can be friends. Along the way you meet midnight feasts in paper caps, a sleepwalking performance, a runaway sleigh and a camera mishap. You also see a quiet kindness grow in a girl who never had to think of others. Let us begin with the father who must choose a school.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A father chooses a school and regrets itFree
- 2Sunny Bank has no rules at all
- 3Paper caps, secret feasts and a watchful Mrs. Stone
- 4Midnight sleepwalking and a runaway sleigh
- 5A letter, a mistake and a lesson in trust
- 6A girl learns to give and the fun continues
- 7What the story is really about and how it is told
Point clé 1 sur 7
A father chooses a school and regrets it
The story opens with Clayton Reeve, a lawyer of about thirty-five, alone in his library among piles of school catalogues. His wife has died, and he cannot bear to stay in the house they built together. Nursemaids and governesses have driven him close to despair, so he decides to place his small daughter in an ideal school and travel for a few months. His little girl, Toinette, climbs into his arms and calls him Papa Clayton, and he explains his plan to her.
The school he picks is run by the Misses Carter, and it proves a poor choice. They can teach from books and make rules, but they have no insight into a child's heart. The months he planned become nearly six years, because his law firm keeps sending him farther across the world. He writes to Toinette that he is glad she is happy, never guessing how much she longs for him.
At Miss Carter's school Toinette learns hard things early. She sees that a girl with money is excused for faults that would crush a poorer girl, such as her classmate Barbara Ellsworth. She despises the favours she receives and tells her roommate, Cicely Powell, that she is only a profitable piece of stock to Miss Carter. Her eyes grow distrustful, though her mouth still curves upward like her mother's.
On a mild Saturday in December, Toinette is restless and sad. Cicely speaks to her on the porch, and Toinette looks near tears and walks away to the garden summerhouse. She watches the road to the station. A bearded, sunburned man in tweed strides toward the school and stops to ask the way, never seeing her behind the lattice. She knows his voice before she knows his face, and she runs to him crying for Papa.
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Questions about Caps et espiègleries
What is Caps and Capers about?
It follows Toinette Reeve, a lonely rich girl placed by her father in a warm boarding school called Sunny Bank. Through pranks, midnight feasts and a wise headmistress, she learns trust and kindness and finds a real home.
What does the Caps and Capers Club mean in the book?
It is the secret society Toinette and her friends form at Sunny Bank. Members wear paper caps and masks and meet at night for feasts. Miss Preston guesses the plan, then joins in with a tub of ice cream.
Who is Miss Preston in Caps and Capers?
Miss Preston is the principal of Sunny Bank. She runs the school without rules, using humour, trust and friendship. She guides girls gently, notices everything, and wins even suspicious pupils like Toinette.
Is Caps and Capers a true story?
It is a novel by Gabrielle E. Jackson, not a true history. The author says she saw many of the pranks herself and tells the school life as she remembered it, with a warm, humorous voice.
Is Caps and Capers easy to read?
Short chapters, lively dialogue and funny scenes make it easy to follow. Each chapter has its own small adventure, such as a sleigh ride or a sleepwalking joke, so it reads in comfortable pieces.