The Second Form at Malory Towers is a novel by Enid Blyton set in an English boarding school.

In their place in North Tower are three new girls: Belinda Morris, Ellen Wilson and Daphne Milicent Turner.

Her new schoolfriends, on the other hand, are delighted to discover Belinda's talent for drawing, enabling her to trade many of her chores in return for caricatures of teachers.

A running theme of the book is her increasing bad temper, caused by her worrying about succeeding at Malory Towers and overworking.

Sally, now the Head of Form, asks Jean to try and befriend Ellen and help her settle down, but her efforts are rejected.

As the term moves on, Ellen becomes increasingly irritable and unwell, and eventually has to spend eleven days in the sanatorium.

Belinda is inspired to draw a set of unkind caricatures of Mam’zelle Rougier, which the French mistress unfortunately sees.

Mam’zelle storms off to complain to Miss Grayling, prompting the Second Formers to send a delegation to follow her and apologise.

Meanwhile, Ellen continues to worry about her work and is frustrated when her requests for extra tuition are refused.

Darrell, Sally, Irene and Belinda set off the next day to find Daphne's parcel.

She tells her that she has received confidential reports from her previous schools and knows she has a history of stealing and lying about her family's wealth.