The Granny Project - Couverture souple

Fine, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 074974832X ISBN 13 : 9780749748326

Editeur : Egmont Books Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

When Natasha and Henry find they can't care for Granny at home any more, they decide to put her in a nursing home. But their children, Ivan and Sophie and the younger two, Nicholas and Tanya, can't imagine life without their Granny and launch a full-scale attack to upset the plan. Nicholas and Tanya are in charge of having tantrums and nightmares about Granny going away, while Ivan and Sophie write the devastating 'Granny Project': a full account of their grandmother's life for the social science class. Their blackmail pays off and their parents allow Granny to stay, but there's a catch: all the cleaning, nursing and caring they used to do will now have to be done by the children. Natasha and Henry want their lives back, and quickly set about joining dance classes, going out and living it up. The children try to keep their side of the bargain but it's too hard. The family comes together again, everyone joining in to help with Granny up until she dies a few months later.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children's book world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, and has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), 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

'She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every major children's literary award in the land, including the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children's Novel award twice . . . There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at work' Scotsman

'A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions' Independent

Quatrième de couverture

Blackmail - or negotiation?

Mum and Dad reckon things would be better if Granny were in a Home.
The kids all want her to stay.
Ivan's Granny Project should make his parents think again.
But there's more than one way of doing a project - and blackmail can work two ways...

A savagely funny tale from multi-award-winning author ANNE FINE.

Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award

'Clever, funny and thoughtful' TLS

'Both audacious and heart-warming' New Statesman

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Egmont Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074974832X
• ISBN 13: 9780749748326
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible