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School's Out!

Jack Sheffield

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English
Corgi Books
15 October 2013
Jack Sheffield delights with the ups and downs of village life in another year at Ragley-on-the-Forest

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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' strike and a final farewell to the halfpenny piece.

Jack has to manage a year of triumph and tragedy...
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Imprint:   Corgi Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   230g
ISBN:   9780552167031
ISBN 10:   0552167037
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jack Sheffield was born in 1945 and gew 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.

Reviews for School's Out!

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 *


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