The Little Village School by Gervase Phinn - ISBN: 9781444705584
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Big city head, small village school, red shoes, big trouble.

The Little Village School

Book 1 in the gorgeously uplifting Little Village School series

$36.37

  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    9 July 2012

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Summary

She was wearing red shoes! With silver heels!

Elisabeth Devine causes quite a stir on her arrival in the village. No one can understand why the head of a big inner city school would want to come to sleepy little Barton-in-the-Dale, to a primary with more problems than school dinners. And that’s not even counting the challenges the mysterious Elisabeth herself will face: a bitter former head teacher, a grumpy caretaker and a duplicitous chair of governors, to name but a few.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781444705584
ISBN-10:144470558X
Author:Gervase Phinn
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:9 July 2012
Weight:320g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 28mm
Series:The Little Village School Series
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Critics Review

Written with all the humour and warmth one has come to expect from this master storyteller.– Countryman

Written with all the humour and warmth one has come to expect from this master storyteller. - Countryman

This heartwarming tale makes ideal holiday reading - News of the World

As Yorkshire’s favourite school inspector turns to fiction you can enjoy memorable characters and turns of phrase. - Choice

About The Author

Gervase Phinn

Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, school inspector, educational consultant, and visiting professor of education. For fourteen years he taught in a range of schools, then acted as General Adviser for Language Development in Rotherham before moving on to North Yorkshire, where he spent ten years as a school inspector - time that has provided much source material for his books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, York. He lives with his family near Doncaster.

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