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What Katy Did at School

This book is the second in the Katy series by Susan Coolidge (pen-name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey). Its protagonist is Katy Carr, the daughter of a widowed doctor in a little town called Burnet. In this story, the Pages, cousins of Katy's dead mother, come to pay a visit to the Carr family. Mrs. Page is distressed as Katy seems middle-aged to her. She feels that Katy taking charge of the house at sixteen is making her too old too quickly, and after some time proposes to Dr. Carr that he should send Katy and the next sister, Clover, to Hillsover, a school for girls in Connecticut. Katy is upset of course at first.

The two girls and their father journey by train to Hillsover, and they meet several girls at school.They discover that there are three rows for the girls to live in-Attic Row, Quaker Row, and Shaker Row. The end room at Quaker Row has a view into the room of a boy named Berry Searles, and that is one reason that all the girls want this room. Their closest friend at Hillsover is Rosamond Redding, the daughter of a Congressman, known as Rose Red. She takes a fancy to Clover, and Katy and Clover are delighted when they learn that their room at the school is right next to Rose's and her room-mate Mary Silver's and that their bureau drawers are right behind each other, and can be pushed out and provide a way into the others' room.

Katy founds a society called The Society for the Suppression of Unladylike Conduct, known as the S.S.U.C. The group, comprised of all the girls they are friends with, puts down flirting and is somewhat literary. This idea comes to Katy after she sees how the girls flirt with the boys next door.

Some time after the society is founded, Miss Florence, the head of the school, is told that a note has been discovered in one of the next door boys' pockets' that says how Miss Carr favors Berry and his friends and wishes them to give her cakes. This note has not been written by Katy or Clover, but by Bella Arkright, who is upset because the boys pay no attention to the little girls of ten and eleven, like Bella, but to the girls of fifteen and sixteen, like Katy and Rose and the others.

All comes right however, because the teached Miss Jane falls ill and Katy nurses her excellently