Books like Rivals of the Chalet School

This is exactly as terrible as I remembered. It's full of catastrophes - repeated ones, at that! - and it's got too much of Joey being glib and irresponsible and almost dying - and it's casually racist to boot. I don't even know how to address the students considering reading about the KKK (!) to plan their schoolgirl revenge. Geography is a poor excuse - ignorance is a poor excuse - their "shock" at reading about the KKK is poorly done ("Only we can't go round beating people or sticking up coffins against their back doors" - yeah, that's not the takeaway) - and the most charitable framing would be amazement at how dated this is.Basically: this is why school stories have a bad reputation. I should have gone with my gut and skipped this one.