The Kindred Spirits are a group of 7 friends who met in their freshman year at Briarwood College.  They experience all sorts of difficulties during their sophomore year.  Allison won't be able to come back to school because she can't afford it.  A new girls arrives at school and doesn't fit in.  Other troubles and triumphs happen to the girls.  This is a charming young adult novel writting in the early 1930s about young college women of the time.