The Adventure Girls at Happiness House

"The Adventure Girls at Happiness House" by Clair Blank is an early 20th-century book that focuses on six young women, the Adventure Girls, as they start college at Briarhurst. Their journey is filled with the typical challenges and excitement of college, but soon takes a turn as they confront mysterious and threatening events on campus. The girls, especially Gale Howard and Phyllis Elton, each have unique personalities, and their shared adventures pull them into a series of mysteries surrounding the new Dean and strange happenings in their school. Readers meet Gale and her friends as they arrive at Briarhurst full of hope and a little bit of worry, eager to make new friends and have new experiences. Soon the girls notice strange events involving the Dean and a sabotaged canoe and a dangerous acid incident; Gale bravely rescues the Dean from disaster, setting off a series of events that entangle them in the growing mysteries of college. The plot strengthens as rivalries form, friendships blossom, and the question of who is behind the sinister events at Briarhurst looms large in their young lives.