What Katy Did at School

Name: What Katy Did at School
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: Susan Coolidge
ISBN: 9789629547684

Author: Susan Coolidge

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Abridged: 2 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 09/29/2008

Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories

Synopsis

In this sequel to What Katy Did, Katy Carr has recovered from her long period of paralysis, and is sent, along with her sister Clover, to Hillsover boarding school. The girls fall into friendship with the mischievous Rose Red, and the three of them start a secret club and get into trouble with their teachers. During her time at Hillsover, Katy has a positive influence on the younger girls at the school, while they help her to regain some of her youthfulness, lost as a result of her illness.

About Susan Coolidge

Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncy Woolsey (1835–1905). Born in Ohio, she served as a nurse during the Civil War and after that turned to writing. When her first book, A New Year’s Bargain, was published in 1871, her editor, who was also the editor for Louisa May Alcott, suggested that Susan Coolidge try her hand at the same kind of story as Alcott’s. What followed were five books about the irrepressible Katy Carr and the fortunes and misfortunes of the Carr family, characters based on members of Coolidge’s own family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on April 22, 2024

What Katy Did at School is a sequel to “What Katy Did”, and written a year later, in 1873. Like many girls, I read and enjoyed these novels about the Carr family, written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, using the pen name Susan Coolidge. The style and concerns are rather like those of “Little Women”, the......more

Goodreads review by Lindley Walter-smith on July 19, 2012

Another sanctimonious Carr family book, in which Katy and Clover teach the other girls at boarding school (which they only go to for ONE YEAR because having made them go against their will, Father decides he "can't spare them at home" and, besides, the starving poor relative he got to housekeep and......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on March 24, 2025

Katy and Clover Carr head east to boarding school in New Hampshire in this sequel to the 1872 classic, What Katy Did, which followed its eponymous heroine through a transformative few seasons of pain and illness, after a back injury. The story here picks up shortly after the conclusion of its pr......more

Goodreads review by Eustacia on November 18, 2022

I’m continuing with the What Katy Did series since I have the first three books! What Katy Did at School is a direct continuation of What Katy Did, and so will have spoilers for the first book. At the end of What Katy Did, Katy has recovered from her prolonged illness and can finally stand and walk a......more

Goodreads review by Luisa on November 08, 2022

Here's the sequel to What Katy Did and it does not disappoint! Katy and Clover go to a girl's boarding school. It's a real test of character though, as they see many girls doing things that are not right or that are inappropriate. And then when Katy gets accused of doing something she didn't do, it......more