The Stone Menagerie [Mass Market Paperback]

Anne Fine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1991

Ally rows with his mother and doesn't please his father. Every Sunday he has to visit his aunt in a mental hospital. He thinks his visits are a waste of time. Then, one day, he sees a girl on the other side of the lake from the hospital grounds. The author won a Carnegie Medal for "Goggle Eyes".

Editorial Reviews

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

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Mammoth (March 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749703431
• ISBN-13: 978-0749703431
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,661,968 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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