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The very first book in the precious Fairacre sequence, TOWN COLLEGE presents the amazing schoolmistress Miss-Read and her adorable number of kids, who, having a combination of skinned laughs and legs, are simply as prone as their mittens to shed themselves. This is actually the English town of Fairacre: a number of thatch-roofed cottages, a church, the college, the guarantee of fair-weather, pleasant people, and great cheer -- at-least all of the period. Below everyone knows everyone else's business, and the villagers like one another anyway (actually Skip Pringle, the irascible, dismal solution of Fairacre College). Having a smart center and a critical eye, Miss-Read instructions us through one sharp, shimmering fall in her town and introduces us to a cast of memorable characters and an environment of drama, love, and laughter, all inside a stone's throw of the college.