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.

The Tulip Touch

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141320478
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Tells of a strange and disturbing friendship, seen through the eyes of Natalie, as she gets to know Tulip Pierce, a delinquent girl most others go out of their way to avoid. This work explores the dark side of a friendship bordering on obsession, and depicts one girl's gradual decline into hostility and violence. Ages 10-13.

The Diary of a Killer Cat

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141971568
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Everyone loves the wickedly dry sense of humour of The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine. Okay, Okay. So hang me. I killed the bird. For pity's sake, I'm a cat. Poor Ellie is horrified when Tuffy drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. But Tuffy can't understand what all the fuss is about. Who on earth will be the next victim to arrive through the cat-flap? Can soft-hearted Ellie manage to get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ways before he ends up in even deeper trouble? The hilarious antics of Tuffy and his family as told by the killer cat himself. 'Anne Fine knows how to make readers laugh' Guardian Anne Fine has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and adults. The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year; and Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize. Anne Fine was named Children's Laureate in 2001 and was awarded an OBE in 2003.

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 True Story of Christmas

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385901567
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Everyone knows the story of Christmas. Decking the halls with boughs of holly. Hanging stockings by the chimney with care. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Then there's the true story of Christmas. And Ralph Mountfield is smack in the middle of it. Great Granny's crustier than ever. Grandpa's singing to the dog. Great Aunt Ida is completely crackers. Uncle Tristam's giving out bricks. The cousins are whining and throwing tantrums. Mum's looking for Dad. Dad's looking for aspirin. And Ralph is looking to stay out of trouble. But when a Christmas Quiz brings out some hidden truths, trouble is exactly what Ralph finds. It's anything but a silent, holy night for the Mountfield family! "From the Hardcover edition.

Bill's New Frock

Author: Anne Fine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405285339
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A classic children's story from one of our best-loved authors, former Children's Laureate Anne Fine. The Modern Classics edition features new illustrations and bonus material. Bill Simpson wakes up to find he's a girl, and worse, his mother makes him wear a frilly pink dress to school. How on earth is he going to survive a whole day like this? Everything just seems to be different for girls ... Perfect for readers aged 7 years and up and fans of The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams. Anne Fine's fun school stories have been delighting children for more than 20 years, winning her awards such as the Smarties Book Award and Carnegie Medal along the way.

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.