At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School. Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl. Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Martha introduces Vicky to pie-beds,...
Relates the experiences of an 8-year-old girl who goes to a boarding school where she is miserable until she gets to know a different girl with a secret language.