Ten of the Best: School Stories with a Difference

ten of the best

School Stories with a Difference!

Edited by

Wendy Cooling

Dedication

To Rita

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Margaret Mahy School Days

Margaret Mahy: School Days

Robert Swindells Porkies

Robert Swindells: Porkies

Berlie Doherty The Puppet Show

Berlie Doherty: The Puppet Show

Jeremy Strong A Thoroughly Idle Boy

Jeremy Strong: A Thoroughly Idle Boy

Jenny Nimmo Dormitory Nights

Jenny Nimmo: Dormitory Nights

Bernard Ashley ‘Ashley, Sit There!’

Bernard Ashley: ‘Ashley, sit There!’

Malorie Blackman Jessica’s Secret

Malorie Blackman: Jessica’s Secret

Michael Morpurgo My One and Only Great Escape

Michael Morpurgo: My One and Only Great Escape

Paul Jennings Strap Stopper

Paul Jennings: Strap Stopper

Michael Rosen ‘Tilly-vally, Lady!’

Michael Rosen: ‘Tilly-vally, Lady! ’

About the Author

Other Works

Copyright

About the Publisher

Margaret Mahy School Days

All the Fleas ran up your back

MARGARET MAHY has been a nurse, a librarian and is New Zealand’s best-known children’s author. She became the first writer outside the United Kingdom to win the Carnegie Medal, for The Haunting, winning the same award two years later for The Changeover. Her other novels include Memory, Twenty-four Hours, Riddle of the Frozen phantom and her soon-to-be-published Alchemy. In 1993 she was awarded New Zealand’s highest honour, the Order of New Zealand, which is only ever held by twenty living people at any one time.