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A Remarkable Ear by Anne Fine
Category: Teenage/Young Adult Fiction
Beloved and award-winning author Anne Fine returns with a touching, musical story of patience, practice and courage.Everyone's always telling Will to stop making so much noise. That is, until he meets music teacher Mr Brand. He thinks Will's not just noisy but that he has a gift and must learn to play t ...Show more
A Shame to Miss Poetry Collection 1 by Anne Fine
Category: Classics
Aimed at junior readers, this collection offers a diverse mixture of classic poetry chosen by Anne Fine. Poets include Lewis Carroll, Walter de la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon and Kipling and many others. A collection of over 70 poems, the book also contains tips to help children understand the poems.
A Shame to Miss Poetry Collection 2 by Anne Fine
Category: Classics
Aimed at junior readers, this collection offers a diverse mixture of classic poetry chosen by Anne Fine. Poets include W.H. Auden and Ted Hughes. It also includes poets from Afro-Caribbean backgrounds like Grace Nichols who are featured alongside other poets from non-European cultures.
A Shame to Miss Poetry: Collection 3 by Anne Fine
Category: Classics
Selected personally by Anne Fine, this collection offers over 100 poems from poets including Kingsley Amis, John Betjeman, Robert Browning, Leonard Clark, Adele Geras, Seamus Heaney, A.E. Housman, Philip Larkin, Pablo Neruda, Brian Patten and Derek Walcott.
Aftershocks by Fine, Anne
Category: Young Adult
A family mix-up means Louie has to tag along with his engineer father and his team as they head for a routine job in the farthest flung and most neglected province of the Federation. A massive earthquake, with ensuing tsunami, devastates the entire isolated coastal region, laying bare the other-worldly ...Show more
All Bones and Lies by Fine, Anne
Category: Fiction
Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. He holds down a responsible job for the council. He visits his aged mother Norah, shops for her, cooks for her, and listens to her grumbles. He also keeps in touch with his sister Dilys, long estranged from her mother, in a vain attempt to maintain family ties. Bu ...Show more
Back on Weird Street by Anne Fine
Category: Children's | Series: Weird Street
Asim, Laila and Tom like nothing more than spooking each other out with tales of the unexpected. This summer they're back with three more stories to chill you to the bone. Can your dreams really grant you fortunes and riches? What lurks in the shadows of Number 17? And is Grandma's house really haunted, ...Show more
Bad Dreams by Anne Fine
Category: Fiction
Mel is the class bookworm. She prefers books to people and doesn't want to be a first-week minder for new girl Imogen. But there's something very strange about Imogen and, as Mel slowly uncovers the truth, she begins to realize that stories can happen in real life, too.
Bad Dreams by Anne Fine
Category: Fiction
'I adore stories in which people have weird dreams, and strange things happen. But that's in books. Real life is supposed to be real, and I like my world to be solid around me...' Mel is the class bookworm. She prefers books to people and doesn't want - or need - friends. She certainly doesn't want to b ...Show more
Be Nice to Aunt Emma by Anne Fine
Category: Middle Readers
Kindness is key in this funny new family drama from perennial bestseller and award-winning author Anne Fine.
Bill's New Frock by Anne Fine
Category: Children's
A classic children's story from one of our best-loved authors, former Children's Laureate Anne Fine. Bill Simpson wakes up to find he's a girl, and worse, his mother makes him wear a frilly pink dress to school. How on earth is he going to survive a whole day like this? Everything just seems to be diffe ...Show more