Ten of the Best: School Stories with a Difference

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Ten of the Best: School Stories with a Difference
Wendy Cooling

Ten prize-winning authors each with a brand new story based on their own schooldays. Bernard Ashley, Malorie Blackman, Berlie Doherty, Paul Jennings, Margaret Mahy, Michael Morpurgo, Jenny Nimmo, Michael Rosen, Jeremy Strong and Robert Swindells.Brand new stories based on each author’s own schooldays – sometimes funny, often poignant, always riveting. Written in each author’s unique style and based on something that is common to every child in the country – SCHOOL. Authors as below:PAUL JENNINGSMICHAEL MORPURGOJEREMY STRONGBERNARD ASHLEYROBERT SWINDELLSMALORIE BLACKMANBERLIE DOHERTYJENNY NIMMOMARGARET MAHYMICHAEL ROSENStories of running away from school; getting the strap for punishments; vindictive teachers; boys who tell porky-pies; the shy girl who could only talk through her puppet; getting expelled ; being an evacuee; original ways of getting out of being in the school play, as well as meeting one’s own true love at school! Stories that contemporary schoolchildren will relate to in sharing the triumphs and disasters of their favourite authors’ schooldays.

ten of the best

School Stories with a Difference!

Edited by

Wendy Cooling

Dedication (#ulink_45f62b8d-c644-5c20-b76a-35051efa9fc7)

To Rita

Contents

Cover (#u1ad04108-6cec-5793-a371-b3e122208414)

Title Page (#uedd9da44-f47f-5c36-8d02-f32d231d209e)

Dedication (#ubd878e1f-4c91-54be-91f5-9e14d64f5ae6)

Margaret Mahy School Days (#uf01cbd66-51f3-5d47-9100-ba81391d7cd0)

Margaret Mahy: School Days (#ua3ef8ec0-ca54-5719-b20f-89dffa6d3c60)

Robert Swindells Porkies (#u080819f0-7f5f-54b3-b8a4-83b02f7473b5)

Robert Swindells: Porkies (#uc5b100e0-b5c7-559b-a2bc-217d25abb097)

Berlie Doherty The Puppet Show (#udcaf72a8-cd43-5b6a-a009-b20df280ac1f)

Berlie Doherty: The Puppet Show (#u7c5d504f-8686-5349-93f9-91764b01890b)

Jeremy Strong A Thoroughly Idle Boy (#u898758e8-26a5-5a9d-ae11-331ffba95434)

Jeremy Strong: A Thoroughly Idle Boy (#u30910bd1-bd61-527f-84dd-2e5f2f684d93)

Jenny Nimmo Dormitory Nights (#u927fb451-f1bb-5b2e-a1cb-18bb64544e1b)

Jenny Nimmo: Dormitory Nights (#uee237e4c-bb39-5519-9847-452f4c33db13)

Bernard Ashley ‘Ashley, Sit There!’ (#u0cc8c262-2430-5f9a-a8a6-603f083bdcda)

Bernard Ashley: ‘Ashley, sit There!’ (#u141eac67-65f1-5bfb-a0e7-892d4c33b5be)

Malorie Blackman Jessica’s Secret (#u5766788e-5865-5cfd-af90-aff667708f93)

Malorie Blackman: Jessica’s Secret (#u80a59211-ccd8-5194-a537-823df2b295ef)

Michael Morpurgo My One and Only Great Escape (#u2790f826-8b27-5975-a388-c9cce428fd17)

Michael Morpurgo: My One and Only Great Escape (#uf541c7d9-e2fc-5c60-9ec7-b7ff0aefdb2c)

Paul Jennings Strap Stopper (#u8d11ec22-c6b8-5382-b874-189c3e11d6a4)

Paul Jennings: Strap Stopper (#ud0feef2c-9ca4-50d9-930f-af36cb3df5c1)

Michael Rosen ‘Tilly-vally, Lady!’ (#ub9bade82-97de-5aad-aea6-3e1b4c578e7b)

Michael Rosen: ‘Tilly-vally, Lady! ’ (#u43da8de3-73d7-5dfb-9477-f1824a7376c5)

About the Author (#u19ad7e1f-0c4f-5bb9-a4e9-c16c09d09b39)

Other Works (#uc6d5d327-875b-55bc-a86d-0939f374d456)

Copyright (#u5b40dd68-292a-50f4-94f1-d9464abbf471)

About the Publisher (#uf38b5cd6-5aa5-5cda-b8e0-4a55086bf977)

Margaret Mahy School Days (#ulink_51c6ed7f-9f28-5c15-945e-3a5a0ff7a1e2)

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.