title: High School Bites: The Lucy Chronicles
author:  Liza Conrad 
description: Liza Conrad is the pseudonym for a successful author who lives in South Florida with an extremely noisy cockatoo, a corgi, and other unruly pets.
zlib_text: Enid Blyton
  
  The Castle of Adventure
  
  Chapter 1
      
  NOW FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
      
      TWO girls sat on a window-seat in their school study. One had red
  wavy hair, and so many freckles that it was impossible to count
  them. The other had dark hair that stuck up in front in an amusing
  tuft.
      ”One more day and then the hols begin,” said red-haired Lucy-
  Ann, looking at Dinah out of curious green eyes. “I’m longing to see
  Jack again. A whole term is an awfully long time to be away from
  him.”
      ”Well, I don’t mind being away from my brother!” said Dinah, with
  a laugh. “Philip’s not bad, but he does make me wild, always
  bringing in those awful animals and insects of his.”
      ”It’s a good thing there’s only one day between our breaking-up
  days,” said Lucy-Ann. “We shall be home first-and we can have a
  look round, and then the next day we shall meet the boys-hurrah!”
      ”I wonder what this place is like, that Mother has taken for the
  hols,” said Dinah. “I’ll get out her letter and read it 