Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007.
What the judges’ said:
Full of dark humour, eccentric metaphors and satirical touches. A marvel’
This is a hair-raising story of the truly terrible Agatha Bilke, a girl who seems to be just plain bad! Agatha is mean and selfish and dangerous. More than anything else in the world, she loves setting fire to things. In despair, Agatha’s parents send her to the TreadQuietly Clinic for Interesting Children and, even there, Agatha is in a league of destruction that’s all her own. Agatha’s chaos-creation is wholly compulsive and, a terrible warning to all.
Make sure you check out the other books in the fantastic Agatha Bilke series, Operation Ward Ten and Paris Match.
This is the story of an awful girl called Agatha Bilke. To help her with her, um, problem, Agatha is sent to the TreadQuietly Clinic, with a group of other troubled children, for therapy sessions with the well meaning but baffled (so far as Agatha is concerned anyway) Humphrey doctors.However, little does Agatha realise that in young Paul Dorey she has found someone prepared to fight to keep everyone nice and alive, thank you. Indeed, to fight for the the future of humanity.Almost.
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This is the story of an awful girl called Agatha Bilke. To help her with her, um, problem, Agatha is sent to the TreadQuietly Clinic, with a group of other troubled children, for therapy sessions with the well meaning but baffled (so far as Agatha is concerned anyway) Humphrey doctors.However, little does Agatha realise that in young Paul Dorey she has found someone prepared to fight to keep everyone nice and alive, thank you.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-8 years old
The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Recommendations
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The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke was written by Sian Pattenden and published by Short Books Ltd
The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke has 156 pages