Granny Was A Buffer Girl
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Author | : Berlie Doherty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Domestic fiction |
ISBN | : 9781846470240 |
Eighteen-year-old Jess is leaving for college--and she'd like to leave her family behind. But when the family gathers to bid Jess farewell, they begin to tell stories. And each story binds them closer to Jess's heart. A novel which celebrates the continuity of life and the importance of family, sure to appeal to a wide audience.
Author | : Berlie Doherty |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1994-05-24 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0688127649 |
Eighteen-year-old Chris struggles to deal with two shocks that have changed his life, his meeting the mother who left him and his father when he was ten and his discovery that he has gotten his girlfriend pregnant.
Author | : Berlie Doherty |
Publisher | : Andersen Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9781842709306 |
Fourteen-year-old Holly Starcross knows two lives: six years with Dad and Mum; then eight years with a divorced family. Maybe happiness is in the stars, but first Holly must make some wrenching choices. This is thoughtful and introspective coming-of-age fiction that hits home and heart.
Author | : Berlie Doherty |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0007311257 |
Unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes.
Author | : Berlie Doherty |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 1989-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780435129651 |
Author | : Berlie Doherty |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2013-10-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1849397996 |
The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman's daughter on remote Hamna Voe. But as a baby she was a gift of the sea to childless Munroe and Jannet, and now the Lord of the Oceans wants her back. Torn between her love for her adopted parents and her strange attraction to the seal people, which will she choose - the sea or the land? From the traditional folk-tale of the selkie, award-winning author Berlie Doherty has created her own lyrical and timeless story of a young girl's search for her true identity.
Author | : Berlie Doherty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780003300574 |
Joe Beads gets on well with his class 3B. However, he is having a problem getting through to Twagger, a sullen absentee. He's also worried about Nasim, just arrived from Pakistan feeling very friendless and very foreign. It's going to be a tricky year.
Author | : Berlie Doherty |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1446405788 |
When Tilly's mum goes out to work, Mrs Hardcastle from up the street pops in to look after her. There are two special things about Mrs Hardcastle. The first thing is that she's always dropping off to sleep (she snores too, sometimes). The second special thing is that whenever she goes to sleep, something magic always seems to happen to Tilly Mint! Carnegie Medal winner Berlie Doherty's enchanting Tilly Mint tales are at last available in one complete collection with brand-new illustrations from Tony Ross.
Author | : Berlie Doherty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-11-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781915235787 |
A new edition of the much loved classic.Catherine and her family set out for her grandmother's house deep in the Derbyshire hills. Sheltering from a storm in an old cruck barn with her younger sister and brother, it becomes strangely familiar to her, and she is drawn back to a time when three children sheltered all winter away from a terrible plague that was devastating their village.Written by a master storyteller Children of Winter recreates the time when the tiny village of Eyam in Derbyshire cut itself off from the rest of England in 1666.Cover Art by Tamsin Rosewell.
Author | : Berlie Doherty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-01-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781915235817 |
Before leaving Sheffield for a year's adventure in France, 18 year-old Jess joins a family gathering. They share stories that have bound them together through generations. Stories of heartbreak, humour and romance. She listens to the tale of her grandparents, whose love kept them together in spite of family conflicts; of her other granny Dorothy's daily toil from the dirt and grime of the buffing wheel; and of her parents' first meeting. And, of course, there's Jess's own story too.Granny was a Buffer Girl won the Carnegie Medal in 1986.Illustrated by Tamsin Rosewell.