Summer at Fairacre

After a long winter of red noses and wet mittens summer is a welcome time for Miss Read and her downland village friends. SUMMER AT FAIRACRE charmingly recounts this bright bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the background of roses skylarks and bees. Joseph Coggs finds a temporary home in the schoolhouse while his mother is in the hospital. Miss Read''s friend Amy mysteriously disappears. Perhaps most difficult of all Mrs. Pringle the grumpy school cleaner is unable to work because the pain in her bad leg flares up. Still the sounds of children playing and the fragrance of summertime flowers fill the air as Miss Read shepherds her students and friends through the warm season.