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Download or read book Anne Fine written by Chris Powling and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series focuses on the life story of an eminent individual with simple language and a wide array of photographs. This title explores the life of the English novelist Anne Fine, telling about Anne's own childhood and what inspired her to become a writer of children's books.
Download or read book The Road of Bones written by Anne Fine and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Aftershocks written by Anne Fine and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family mix-up means Louie has to tag along with his engineer father and his team as they head for a routine job in the farthest flung and most neglected province of the Federation. A massive earthquake, with ensuing tsunami, devastates the entire isolated coastal region, laying bare the other-worldly manner in which the silent and strange Endlanders deal with life, death and the hinterlands of memory and loss. Their curious and unsettling ways raise ghosts for Louie, who has recently lost his own brother. This modern fable - part ghost-story, part coming-of-age novel and part astute social and family observation - explores the ways in which grief can affect not only individuals, but communities at large.
Download or read book Flour Babies written by Anne Fine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bill's New Frock written by Anne Fine and published by Egmont Modern Classics. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill wakes up one morning and finds that he has turned into a girl. From this experience, he learns how ridiculous gender constraints are.
Download or read book Madame Doubtfire written by Anne Fine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Diary of a Killer Cat by : Anne Fine
Download or read book The Diary of a Killer Cat written by Anne Fine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The True Story of Christmas by : Anne Fine
Download or read book The True Story of Christmas written by Anne Fine and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Chicken Gave It to Me by : Anne Fine
Download or read book The Chicken Gave It to Me written by Anne Fine and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic children's story from former Children's Laureate Anne Fine.Gemma doesn't believe a chicken could have written a book. Chickens can't even read! But when Andrew shoes her "The True Story of Harrowing Farm", she can't deny that its scratchy pages look, well, chicken-y. It is the story of a chicken who flies millions of miles, reaching the heights of intergalactic superstardom, to try and save us humans.A heart-warming tale about kindness and bravery.
Download or read book The Tulip Touch written by Anne Fine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book How Brave is That? written by Anne Fine and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom wants to join the army, but he has to pass his exams first. When he turns up without a proper uniform one day, strict Mrs Bell threatens to send him home. There are spare clothes available, but is Tom brave enough to face the exam hall - in a skirt?
Download or read book Up on Cloud Nine written by Anne Fine and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Stolly struggles to regain consciousness in a hospital bed, Ian recalls some of their best and worst times together as he writes a biography of his eccentric best friend.
Download or read book The Devil Walks written by Anne Fine and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel is raised as an invalid in isolation by his mother until the day she is removed to an asylum and Daniel is taken to live with the doctor's family. Soon Daniel begins to uncover secrets about his mother's dark family history, and a sinister doll seems to be at the centre of the mystery. First person recount. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
Download or read book The Killjoy written by Anne Fine and published by Black Swan. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nobody, not even his former wife Margaret, has ever treated Ian Laidlaw in a natural way. Presented with his hideous facial scars, everyone he meets reliably falls back on cast-iron, distant courtesy to hide pity or disgust or shock. But then Alicia Davie, a careless young student, breaks the rules totally by laughing in his face. Alicia goes on to infiltrate the hidden man, exposing the obsessive, destructive passions that lurk beneath his primly cordial manner, never realizing that she is playing with fire..."
Download or read book Goggle-Eyes written by Anne Fine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...
Download or read book Only a Show written by Anne Fine and published by Puffin HC. This book was released on 1998-01-29 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will Anna do for her five minute show at school? Find out in this popular tale now available in full colour.
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Anne Fine and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic children's book from best-loved Bill's New Frock author, former Children's Laureate Anne Fine. Perfect for readers aged between 7 and 9 and fans of The Midnight Gang and Pamela Butchart's Wigglesbottom Primary series. It's Ivan's first day at his new school, and Boris is told to look after him, and translate for him, because Ivan can only speak Russian. After all, St Edmund's is a civilized school. Only problem is, Ivan isn't civilized. So when Ivan starts greeting people as 'lowly shivering worms', and asking for words in English like 'crush' and 'mutilate', Boris realises that he's going to have his work cut out for him. And that's just the start of the day . . . 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.
