Pearl and Jodie are sisters. Pearl is the quiet, cautious, studious one. Jodie is bold and brash and bad - but Pearl adores her anyway. When their parents get new jobs as the cook and caretaker at a fusty old boarding school, the girls have to move there and spend their summer holidays in the school with just a few children and staff for company. And when they arrive, things start to change. Jodie has always been the leader - but now it`s Pearl who`s making new friends, like the amazingly tall, badger-watching Harley and Mrs Wilberforce, the wife of the Head who`s confined to a wheelchair but introduces Pearl to wonderful new books. Jodie just seems to be getting into more and more trouble - arguing with Mum, scaring the little children, flirting with the When term begins, their strange summer is over. But things keep on changing. Jodie really doesn`t fit in with the posh teenagers at the school. But Pearl is doing well in lessons and has even more friends. Maybe she doesn`t need Jodie as much as she used to. But Jodie needs her. And when the school celebrations of Firework Night come around and a tragic event occurs, Pearl realises quite how much she does need her big