New Longman Literature
6 total works
THE FLOWERS FAMILY AND ITS TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS WITH CONVICTION AND A LIVELY SENSE OF HUMOUR.
Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling awful lies. None of this matters to Natalie who finds Tulip exciting. At first she doesn't care that other peopleare upset and unnerved by Tulip's bizarre games, but as the games become increasingly sinister and dangerous, Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far, much too far, racing, in fact, to the novel's shocking ending.
Award-winning author Anne Fine’s story is humorous and thought-provoking at every turn.
Goodnight Mr Tom Hardback
by Michelle Magorian, Jim Taylor, Andrew Bennett, and Michael Fitzpatrick
Published May 1998
Torn away from his deprived family by war, Willie Beech arrives in a strange new world. he soon has to start living differently with 'Mister Tom'. Will he ever be the same again? What will happen when he suddenly has to return to his mother in London? A modern classic set during the Second World War.
One stormy night, five stranded schoolchildren uncover the story of Richard Clayton Harwick a boy who many years ago learned what it was like to have a truly wicked stepfather. But the children have stories of their own step-parents to tell stories that have warmth and humour, as well as sadness, and a fair share of happy endings. For children who have some similar experience, this novel will be therapeutic; for those who haven t it s an absorbing read, to make them laugh and cry Sunday Telegraph."
Laura finds herself in correspondence with a boring girl called Miranda. She decides to liven things up by pretending to be Lady Melody from a noble family, but then she discovers that Miranda is really a professional thief who steals from the rich to give to the poor - a modern Robin Hood.