Duelling Princes

By Tyne O'Connell

Book Overview

DUELLING PRINCES BY TYNE O'CONNELL If you love Malory Towers you will love St Augustine's even more Tyne O'Connell is the Enid Blyton of our day, with her boarding school tales of St Augustine's, set right by Eton college & Windsor Castle, & for a dash of royal glamour, there is the very real possibility that you might be rooming with a princess or better still pulling A Prince At St Augustine's & nearby Eton College, attended by the Royal Princes, O'Connell gives teenagers everywhere the chance to experience the centuries old traditions of English Boarding Schools, with their midnight feasts, dorm raids & illicit trysts with boys along the bluebell pathways of ancient Puller's Woods. Best of all, readers get to experience this uniquely exclusive world of royals & privilege from someone whose lived it through her own & her three children's boarding school adventures. The St Augustine's boarding school series are must read classics for all ages. After all the boarding school action the series continues with the same characters at Oxford, London & into the Royal Castles where HRH Freds FAMED house parties offer a cheeky peak of the royals & friends at play. Calypso is an ordinary American teen, plunged into the extraordinary world of the ancient British Boarding School system with all its mad traditions & customs, surrounded by the daughters of international royalty & rock-stars. With the national fencing trials coming up, balancing school, friendships, and a royal romance is a lot harder than she imagined. Something will have to give, but what or whom will it be? Picking up where Stealing Princes left off, this funny, fast-paced third book chronicling the life and times of Calypso Kelly will not disappoint. When her LA parents arrive in London causing mayhem, Calypso finds that having her prince, winning her bouts, evading the British tabloid press and staying on the right side of the Horrible Hon, 's Honey & Poppy O'Hare while convincing her parents to start acting like adults may be more than any girl can handle. Just as well that her fabulous toff friends & the Nuns are on side to help Calypso with the chaos & the fun Set in a fictional Eton College where Princes William and Harry attended & the nearby St Mary's Ascot school attended by Princess Caroline of Monaco and which the authors daughter attended, The Pulling Princes series are like being let in on the sensational secret life of Britain's aristocratic and toff teens. Although entirely fictional, the books accurate portrayal of the hitherto closed world of Royal teens, created feverish speculation and comparisons to actual royals and Aristocratic teens - specifically Prince William and Prince Harry - were inevitable. After a heated bidding war, Bloomsbury won the USA rights to the series at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2004. They have now been re-released in Kindle format. Dating the second in line to the throne, Prince Freddie has made Year Eleven at St. Augustine's the best year at St Augustine's so far for American Calypso Kelly. Together with best friends Star and Georgina, and new chums Portia and Indie, LA-born Calypso at last seems to fit into the exclusive all girls Boarding school near Windsor Castle. "Funny expos of It-girlschool life." ELLE GIRL UK "A deliciously naughty insider's guide to sensational secret life of Britain & Europe's royal teens from the midnight feasts, incredibly close friendships & romances to the tabloid escapades and code language - thank goodness there is a dictionary of posh teen slang included." BOOK CHIT CHAT "A right royal read" THE MAYFAIR TIMES "Budding Anglophiles... will soak up the flood of upper-class British culture in this book. Fans of Cecily von Ziegesar's "Gossip Girl" series and Zoey Dean's "A-List" series (both Little, Brown) should enjoy it".- WASHINGTON COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SERVICES

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1502464349
• ISBN13: 9781502464347
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 11 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 10

Customer Reviews

Continuation of a Charming Series

The third book in a series, and the third I have read this week in this series. This book has more depth to it than others you might compare it to (Princess Diaries, Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging, etc). The narrator, Calypso Kelly, is an American born girl who's mother has forced her to attend a British boarding school. In this third book (and it is best to read them in order) Calypso's two main passions are really taking off: fencing and writing. And perhaps that is what gives her more depth, while she does obsess a bit over guys, she keeps them in as much perspective as a 14 (nearly 15) year old can. She and Prince Freddie, as usual are having their misunderstandings, it is well established by now that he gets a bit insecure as far as Calypso is concerned. On top of those good things, however, she also has to deal with her mother having hopped onto the L.A. bandwagon of therapists, and her midlife crisis--which includes Sarah moving back to England and leaving Bob in L.A. to work on his "Big One". And the horror of having Honey O'Hare as her roommate. As usual Calypso narrates with a wonderfully engaging style. I wouldn't reccomend this for younger readers because it does have some coarse language in it, 14 the youngest, 15 is probably the target audience.

Dueling Princes

The third book in Tyne O' Connell's Calypso Chronicles, Dueling Princes is an amazing and hilarious read. Calypso Kelly is back at the posh English boarding school of St. Augustine's after spending the half-term break at her friend Star's Derbyshire estate kissing her boyfriend, Prince Freddie. With the British National Fencing Competition coming up, she and Portia, another of her friends, are determined to make the national team. Too bad a royal monkey wrench is thrown into her plans by the arrival of her "mad madre", who is separating from Calypso's father, Bob. On top of all this, she's having problems with Freds and they might even break up! Drastic measures are needed, of course, and so Calypso attempts the unheard of. She sneaks into the boys' boarding school, Eades, where she is caught by the house matron, and worst of all, Freddie, in someone else's bathrobe necking champagne. Before she can explain, the house matron carts her back to St. Augustine's to face the wrath of her mother... and Sister Constance. With crazed parents, a fanatical fencing master, and a small nun with a lot of energy all on the loose, will Calypso ever be able to keep her prince and win her bouts on the fencing piste?

An enjoyable third installment in The Calypso Chronicles

Calypso Kelly, the American import at the British prep school St. Augustine's, returns for a third adventure in this fun series. Calypso is starting to get serious about fencing now, and will be competing in tournaments that will bring her to the attention of scouts and even the British National team. Her Olympic dream is getting closer. In the meantime, her mother comes to England, saying she has left Calypso's father in Los Angeles and wants to start a new life near her daughter. Calypso thinks it would be nice to see more of her mom if only she didn't pinch her cheek and call her Boojie in public. What about her father? His angry email responses to Calypso show her that a solution to this separation seems to be nowhere in sight. Prince Freddie continues to be her boyfriend, though several miscommunications put this in jeopardy. When she tries to break into his school, she gets caught in a very compromising situation that could keep her out of some important fencing matches. On top of all that, school exams are coming up. How can one girl from LA balance it all? Fans of Gossip Girl and Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson series will enjoy The Calypso Chronicles. Dating a prince may be the stuff of fantasies, but Calypso has the same doubts and dreams of many young women. Her dating life is just one aspect of this well-rounded, likeable character. --- Reviewed by Amy Alessio