Madame Doubtfire

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141939567
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and fro between their volatile mother, Miranda, and Daniel, their out-of-work actor father. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will supervise the children after school - and Daniel gets the job, disguised as Madame Doubtfire. This is a bittersweet, touching and extremely funny book.

Madame Doubtfire

Author: J. Y. K. Kerr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405879163
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description
"Miranda Hilliard does not live with her husband, Daniel. He wants to see the children more often, but they live with Miranda. One day Madame Doubtfire comes to work for Miranda and help with the children. But Madame Doubtfire seems strange, more like a man than a woman ..."--Cover.

Goggle-Eyes

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141944277
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125

Book Description
Kitty Killin is not only a good storyteller, but also the World's Greatest Expert when it comes to mothers having new and unwanted boyfriends. Particularly when there's a danger they might turn into new and unwanted stepfathers...

The Jamie and Angus Stories

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763633127
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
Presents a collection of stories about a boy named Jamie, and his stuffed animal named Angus.

Shades of Scarlet

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: David Fickling Books
ISBN: 1788451368
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
When Mum gives her the notebook, Scarlet should be happy. It's beautiful, with its shiny scarlet cover and its blank pages full of promise. But Scarlet is absolutely NOT in the mood for a peace offering.Does Mum really think she can tear their family apart and expect Scarlet to be happy about it?Scarlet decides there's only one thing she can write in the notebook. The truth, about everything . . .

The Tulip Touch

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141927933
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling awful lies. None of this matters to Natalie who finds Tulip exciting. At first she doesn't care that other people are upset and unnerved by Tulip's bizarre games, but as the games become increasingly sinister and dangerous, Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far. Much too far. Racing, in fact, to the novel's shocking ending.

Notso Hotso

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141939583
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
It's a dog's life for Anthony. Not only is he lacking the respect he deserves from the neighbourhood dogs and cats, but suddenly all he can do is scratch, scratch, scratch. And now bits of him are dropping off - yeuch! Just when Anthony thinks things can't get any worse, he finds himself on the vet's table. What she has in mind is about to destroy the tiny shred of street cred he has left...

Flour Babies

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141936126
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Flour Babies by Anne Fine, won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1992. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartwright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times. Funny and poignant, Flour Babies is a brilliant depiction of secondary school life.

The Road of Bones

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374363161
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
In school, Yuri is taught that the revolution liberated his country. He learns how the new leaders are always working for the greater good. But the truth is that life for his family and those around him is a brutal, poverty-stricken struggle. The government does nothing except punish those who protest. And one day, to his shock and horror, Yuri himself is branded an “enemy of the state” simply for dropping a few careless words. In an author’s note, Anne Fine describes The Road of Bones as an adventure-escape story set in “a sort-of Russia, in a sort-of 1930s, under a Stalin-type leader.” This chilling political thriller follows the frantic footsteps of a teenager on the run, a criminal who hasn’t committed a crime, a young man on a path to discovering the truth about how far he will go in order to survive.

The Family in English Children's Literature

Author: Ann Alston
Publisher: Children's Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780415699617
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Ann Alston focuses on the ideological construction of the family in children's literature. She suggests that despite the tales of family woe portrayed in children's literature, the desire for the happy, contended nuclear family remains inherent within the ideological subtexts of children's literature.