School's Out!
$27.45
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2013
Summary
As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more eventful year than usual. A new teacher is appointed, and before long tongues start to wag. Meanwhile, five-year old Madona Fazackerly makes her mark in an unexpected way, life changes dramatically for Ruby the caretaker and, in the village Coffee Shop, Dorothy Humpleby plans a dirty weekend. It’s 1983 - the era of the new CD player, Microsoft Word, the McDonalds McNugget, cabbage patch dolls, the threat of a miners’ stri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552167031 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552167037 |
| Author: | Jack Sheffield |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Corgi Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 21mm |
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School and village life is painted with compassion and an exquisite sense of detail, deftly balancing humour and tragedy. * Choice magazine *
A wonderful, nostalgic trip to the era of Cabbage Patch dolls and the introduction of CD players. * Good Book Guide *
About The Author
Jack Sheffield
Jack Sheffield was born in 1945 and grew up in the tough environment of Gipton Estate in north-east Leeds. After training to be a teacher, he became a headteacher in two North Yorkshire schools before becoming a Senior Lecturer at Bretton Hall College. It was at this time that he began to record his many amusing stories of Yorkshire village life, which tell the life of a head teacher in the fictional village of Ragley-on-the-Forest. He now lives in York and Hampshire.
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