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With a huge and original cast and a never ending supply of witty and original incident, this is a thoroughly enjoyable story from an award-winning writer. Cissy escapes from the boredom of life in her home town and especially the clutches of her stern mother when she sets off to meet up with her old school teacher.
Soon she is aboard an old riverboat and is part of the unlikely cast of the Bright Lights Theatre Company who perform anywhere they can to anyone who’ll watch while also escaping from a number of alarming and perilous situations. One hilarious or tragic-comic situation follows another as the boat lurches down the river with little to control it.
Anne Fine on Geraldine McCaughrean:
'I reckon Geraldine McCaughrean knocks the socks off every other children's writer today. Everything she does is different and everything works – look at her list of prizes. She must write in tremendous bursts. Some years, she's so prolific the rest of us start joking that the fairies come in at night to do her work for her.
Then she'll go quiet, so unlike all those writers who are persuaded by their publishers to come up with something every year, no matter how tired or drab. If Geraldine has nothing fresh to write, she doesn't write it.' (The Guardian)
There isn't much drama in Olive Town. The highlight of Cissy Sissney's days are the letters from her old schoolteacher, Miss Loucien, describing her adventures on board an old showboat with the Bright Lights Theatre Company. If only life were full of such adventure for Cissy too.
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There isn't much drama in Olive Town. The highlight of Cissy Sissney's days are the letters from her old schoolteacher, Miss Loucien, describing her adventures on board an old showboat with the Bright Lights Theatre Company.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Pull Out All the Stops! and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-10 years old
Pull Out All the Stops! features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Recommendations, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Recommended Children's eBooks
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Pull Out All the Stops! was written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Oxford University Press
Pull Out All the Stops! has 254 pages
