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|title=Return to Ribblestrop

|author=Andy Mulligan

|reviewer=John Lloyd

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=384

|publisher=Simon & Schuster Children's Books

|date=February 2011

|isbn=978-1847388124

}}

Before they even get back to Ribblestrop, Millie and her friends singularly or together hitchhike, pay their bus drivers the fare in fags, survive a car crash, set fire to a hotel, survive being eaten by a lion and other big cats, and encourage a Brazilian with a criminal record to take his unemployed circus animals to Ribblestrop. And what is Ribblestrop, you may ask?

By the end however this is less an outrageous schooldays fiction, and more of a full-on adventure, with death-defying bravery, rooftop escapades and much subterranean drama. ''We're at war again'', says one of the pupils. ''Feels good to me.'' It's an adventure formed by, and maintaining, the spirit of the school, though, just as it's clear the heroes and heroine are only able to save the day because of the lessons, the rum, and the lack of rules to be had at Ribblestrop. All characters then are daring, dauntless and delightful. It's not the daring among you that buy this book, but the sensible, for it is a second great, unusual, lighthearted action romp that satisfies on every level.

The series started [[Ribblestrop by Andy Mulligan|here]], while the author has since given us his [[Trash by Andy Mulligan|Trash]], as it were. A further odd school can be seen in [[Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation by Tom Siddell]].

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