The Naughtiest Girl Keeps a Secret (1999) is the first of a continuation of Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton was an English children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.Noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups,her books have enjoyed huge success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 600 million copies.One of Blyton's most...

's The Naughtiest Girl series by Anne Digby

Anne Digby

Anne Digby is a prolific British children's author best known for the Trebizon series, published between 1978 and 1994.She attended North London Collegiate School, before becoming a magazine journalist and lived in Paris for a time. She then worked as a press officer for Oxfam in Oxford. Her first...

. The series follows on from four books first written by Enid Blyton in the 1940s, continuing Elizabeth Allen's adventures at Whyteleafe School. Elizabeth is still in the first form.

The Naughtiest Girl Keeps a Secret is about Elizabeth's struggle to keep friend John's secret about planning to win a local gardening competition. He is to have no help growing anything if he wants to enter. Even after John is taken ill and Elizabeth is accused unfairly of playing awful tricks on the mistresses, she still fights to keep the secret. She has to decide whether to break the rules and tend to John's plants or leave them to die.