Eating Things on Sticks
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Harry is in trouble. He's burned down the family kitchen so now has to spend a week of his summer hols with his uncle Tristram - who's heading off to stay with a new girlfriend - Morning Glory - on a tiny British island.
Harry doesn't expect it to be a lot of fun - with just a wacky competition at the end of the week to look forward to. He certainly didn't expect to discover all the beards. Or the angel on the mountain.
Or the helicopters circling overhead all week. And he definitely didn't think it would be so wet . . .
Author's Biography
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children’s book world since her first book was published in the mid 1970s, and has now written more than forty books. Fine has won major awards including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children’s Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and others. The Children’s Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne is also very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy about the family and her honesty about how people can behave. She lives in the North-East.
‘One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human condition writing today for the young’ School Librarian
‘There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at work’ Scotsman
Reviews
“A lively, witty, rain-drenched tale full of big beards, from one of our best children's writers.” - New Review (supplement to The Independent on Sunday)
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