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'Both boys and girls will enjoy this tale of rivalry between two cousins, boys of thirteen, who are thrown together to share home and school lives. Michael, who has been left an orphan, comes from the city, where he has been a member of a leading boys' college, to become a member of his aunt's farmhouse home and attend a small bush school. Michael has a hard fight against his cousin Norman's hostility at home, and the boys being rival leaders of sport at school, the feud between them becomes serious. Besides this thread of interest, there are amusing sidelights on the family life at the farm, which is made lively by the escapades of three small brothers, and Marie, of twelve, who tries to bring peace about between the older boys. In "The Red School House" country readers will live over again the scenes and activities of many a little bush school whose girls and boys have gone through all the same things that befall the Drury children, and Michael, their cousin from town.'
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'New Serial Story', The Australasian, 1 September 1934, p.45.
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"Jingaroo is the small Victorian country township which is the scene of young Robin Grant's adventurous first year on his uncle's farm. The Saunders children - the two boys, Rae and Johnny; the warm-hearted Janey with her passion for the wilder kind of romantic fiction; and the irrepressible twins, Tip and Taddy - are inclined at first to resent Robin as a new comer. But he gradually wins them around, and when he finally takes an important part in outwitting an unpleasant neighbour and thus saving the farm (which the family were in danger of losing), he is at last accepted as one of the family." (Publication summary)
