Eating Things On Sticks [Import] [Hardcover]

Anne Fine (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up

A hilarious tale of a vacation on a remote British island where the week’s highlight is the annual fair with its Eating Things on Sticks competition!

Harry is in trouble. He’s burned down the family kitchen so now has to spend a week of his summer holidays with his uncle Tristram who is 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….

Editorial Reviews

Review

“One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human condition writing today for the young.”
–School Librarian

“A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions.”
–Independent

About the Author

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 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

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday UK (August 31, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385616023
• ISBN-13: 978-0385616027
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,516,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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