Over the Sea to School — Mabel Esther Allan

Dillian Harvie, captain of her form and perfectly contented with life at the local High School, likes things set and unchanging. Imagine her dismay when she learns she is to go to boarding-school far away in the remote Isle of Skye. The Harvies have a family connection with Skye, but Dillian's resentment at this uprooting makes her condemn everything Scottish, and on arrival at Dundonay she refuses to acknowledge her crofter relations in the nearby village. Her stubborn attitude starts her on the wrong foot...