Granny Project [Paperback]

Anne Fine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2002

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.

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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 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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Egmont Books (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074974832X
• ISBN-13: 978-0749748326
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,575,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars this book is the worst book in the WORLD, July 18, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Granny Project (Hardcover)

Don't even bother reading this book it sucks!

the first part of the book plonks you into the middle of a conversation that is hardly understandible, and then moves very slowly along the rest of the way, until the granny dies at the end, making you think, 'what was the point in this whole book?'

i dont think this book deserves even a one star rating, but unfortunately its as low as you can go! i advise you NOT to read this book!

1.0 out of 5 stars The granny project, October 11, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Granny Project (Hardcover)

This book is horrible! sorry anne fine but it changes from one subject to the next! one minute there just sitting shouting very difficult words and the next the grans going to a home and the next its a confused birthday between characters that havent even been explained!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Granny Project, February 14, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Granny Project (Hardcover)

For 5-9 year old's, we can understand that this book would be quite exiting. We thought that this book was quite boring. the book is funny in some parts of the book near the end, but the rest of the book is slow and boring. Some parts are quite interesting and some parts are quite sad like near the end when disaster strikes!