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Flora is furious at being sent away to boarding school, even one which is very progressive with luxurious facilities and school rock bands. Her parents need to sell her grandmother's house in Italy and build a granny flat at home, and Flora is resentful at having her life turned upside down for a grumpy, unpleasant old woman. On the train, she falls asleep and wakes up to find herself in another era. Trendy 21st century Flora is horrified to find herself in a hideous pinafore dress with a childish haircut and no make upmakeup. What has happened to her IpodiPod, mobile phone and brand new laptop?

Flora has a lot to learn at St Winifreds Winifred's in 1935, where she is soon installed in a room shared with three other girls. Her classmates and teachers are puzzled and sometimes quite shocked by the things she says and her language, and she has to adapt to a completely different syllabus. She is helped in this by making good friends with her new roommates, who can tell her how she got there but not how to get back – they were experimenting with spells.

Other time travel stories include [[The Queen Must Die (Chronicles of the Tempus) by K A S Quinn]] and [[Timecatcher by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick]]. You might also enjoy [[Elspeth Hart and the School for Show-offs by Sarah Forbes]].