If you were hooked on reading Ella Diaries now look at Ella at Eden a new series from Scholastic

Ella is excited and nervous at the same time as she hugs her family goodbye. She is about to start at Eden College Boarding School. She never thought she’d be able to attend this exclusive school along with her best friend Zoe, but after receiving a scholarship, her new life away from home is about to begin.

Ella is in a dorm room with three other girls, and is yet to discover all the amazing activities available at Eden College. She loves to write, and act and is a good gymnast, so decides to look at those options. There are also streaming tests looming, to decide which Year 7 class she will be part of, and there are new girls to get to know.

Everything is going relatively smoothly (besides upsetting a snooty girl called Saskia), when things begin to go missing from the Year 7 dorms. Have they just been misplaced, or is someone stealing from them all? There is also the mysterious Clink Clink Clink that Ella hears late at night. Is it really a ghost like the older girls say?

While reading Ella at Eden, I felt her nerves and excitement of her first day at Eden College. I enjoyed Ella’s courage dealing with Saskia, and the relationships between the girls, and the mystery thread was intriguing. Ella is a wordsmith and constantly uses rich language then explains the meaning of the word. Her friends don’t mind this personality quirk and it is enriching reader’s vocabulary at the same time. This is the first in a new series of Ella moving on from the Ella of the hugely popular series – Ella Diaries.