My Sister Jodie

The story focuses around two sisters, Pearl and Jodie. Pearl, the younger sister, is eleven and is quiet, shy and intelligent. Jodie is fourteen and is loud and outgoing Their parents both get jobs at a boarding school called Melchester College, with a flat included. They sell their old home and go to the school. Pearl makes lots of new friends there. Harley, an incredibly tall boy of Jodie's age, is one, another intelligent person, and they meet when she stumbles across the Badger Set he watches. Mrs. Wilberforce, wife of the headmaster, is another. Mrs. Wilberforce is confined to a wheelchair after she fell down the stairs inside a tower at the school. Jodie and Pearl are anxious to discover the mystery of Melchester College. After stealing the keys from their dad's workbelt, Jodie and Pearl uncover secrets from the attics and at long last find the locked door to the tower. When they find the right key, Jodie and Pearl and Harley, realise that the tower was Mrs Wilberforce's room. Full of books and antique items, their discoveries must be kept a secret. When school boarders arrive, Pearl makes friends with Harriet, Freya, Clarissa and Sheba. At Halloween, Jodie tells the full time boarder children Zeph, Dan and Sakura about the whispering white witch.[3] Mr Wilberforce makes Jodie stand in front of the school to tell everyone there is absolutely no such thing as ghosts. So to make the children hundred percent not believe in ghosts, Jodie stands at the window of the tower room on Bonfire Night. To pull of the white veil to show her signature purple hair, Jodie pulls a little too much and falls out the window to her death. The last chapter of the book mainly focuses on Pearl's new little sister May