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www.annefine.co.uk/Publisher
Yearling (imprint of Random House Children's Books) an imprint of Random House Children's BooksPublication date
1st June 2006ISBN
9780440867319Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Charm School
Anne Fine
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Forced to spend a day at Charm School while her mother is on a course, Bonny makes some surprising and hilarious discoveries. Can Bonny cope with listening to Mrs Opalene's Helpful Handy Hits (like 'how to bleach your elbows'!)? And what about the other girls? After Bonny's day there, Charm School will never be the same again.
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Charm School by Anne FineI am NOT going to Charm School...' But Bonny has no choice. Forced to spend a day at Charm School while her mother is on a course, Bonny makes some surprising and hilarious discoveries. Can Bonny cope with listening to Mrs Opalene's Helpful Handy Hits (like 'how to bleach your elbows'!)? And what about the other girls - the awful, self-obsessed little princesses who really want to win the 'Glistering Tiara' and are prepared to do almost anything to get it? After Bonny's day there, Charm School will never be the same again...
Reviews
This ultra-modern tale sparkles and crackles from page one to a dramatic finale.- The Bookseller
Praise for Bad Dreams :
[Anne Fine] produces a subtle and absorbing tale.
-- Publishers Weekly
Praise for Up on Cloud Nine :
England's Children's Laureate again exercises her unsurpassed gift for memorable, complex character studies.
-- Kirkus Reviews, Starred
Fine outdoes herself here.
-- The Horn Book Magazine, Starred
Completely absorbing.
-- School Library Journal, Starred
About The Author
Anne Fine was our Guest Editor in July 2011. Click here to see the books she selected.
Anne Fine was born and educated in the Midlands and now lives in County Durham. She has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and adults.
Her novel 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 and was adapted for television by the BBC; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize, and Madame Doubtfire became the major feature film 'Mrs Doubtfire' starring Robin Williams. Anne was named Children's Laureate in 2002 and made an OBE for services to children's literature in 2003.
Click here to read a Q&A with the author or click here to read an extended biography in which Anne talks about her writing.
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