Background
Fine, Anne was born on December 7, 1947 in Leicester, England. Daughter of Brian and Eileen Mary (Baker) Laker.
(Ally rows with his mother and doesn't please his father. ...)
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".
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(Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, ...)
Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling awful lies. None of this matters to Natalie who finds Tulip exciting. At first she doesn't care that other people are upset and unnerved by Tulip's bizarre games, but as the games become increasingly sinister and dangerous, Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far, much too far, racing, in fact, to the novel's shocking ending.
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(Kitty Killin is not only a good storyteller, but also the...)
Kitty Killin is not only a good storyteller, but also the World's Greatest Expert when it comes to mothers having new and unwanted boyfriends. Particularly when there's a danger they might turn into new and unwanted stepfathers...
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( Cass has always been there for Tom, her twin - racing o...)
Cass has always been there for Tom, her twin - racing off to laugh with him in the old, abandoned ice house or planning how to foil Jamieson, the farm's creepy pest-killer. But now Cass is a teenager, she is changing - she wants her privacy and feels suffocated by their life on the farm. Bewildered, Tom struggles to regain their former closeness, but only succeeds in alienating both Cass and Jamieson's daughter Lisa. Until the night of the storm....
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(Anneli hates art. She doesn't like looking at it or think...)
Anneli hates art. She doesn't like looking at it or thinking about it, and when the paints come out in the art class at school, she just can't stand it. But behind a hidden door in her house, Anneli finds a painting that draws her into an extraordinary story.
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(Miranda Hillard and her husband Daniel are divorced. He m...)
Miranda Hillard and her husband Daniel are divorced. He misses the children. One day Madame Doubtfire comes to work for Miranda, but she seems to behave more like a man than a woman.
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(The Palmer sisters are close. They see each other often, ...)
The Palmer sisters are close. They see each other often, for shopping trips and casual suppers. They care for one another's children and houses and pets through holidays and emergencies. They phone one another ceaselessly. And there are never any secrets. Not until now.
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(Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign. When the annual ...)
Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartwright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times.
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( Blackmail - or negotiation? Mum and Dad reckon things w...)
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.
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(It’s war in the Flowers household. Will’s sister Estelle ...)
It’s war in the Flowers household. Will’s sister Estelle has turned overnight into a screaming, screeching banshee whose moods explode throughout the household. Mum and Dad have surrendered. Will decides to keep a record of his life on the front line.
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(Kitty is not pleased with her mother's boyfriend, especia...)
Kitty is not pleased with her mother's boyfriend, especially his views on the anti-nuclear issue, until unexpected events prompt her, after all, to help him find his place in the family.
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( Anne Fine’s humorous and moving story of one boy’s atte...)
Anne Fine’s humorous and moving story of one boy’s attempt to come to terms with his own absent father by doing a school project on fathering. At the annual science fair, Mr Cartwright’s class don’t get to work on the Soap Factory, or the Maggot Farm, instead they get the flour babies – sweet little six pound bags of flour that must be cared for. The book contains a lively playscript suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities. Flour Babies is suitable for class work, drama lessons and school productions. The resource material includes advice on staging the play, ideas for improvisation arising from the script, poems and extracts from fictional and non-fictional writing. The issues of parenthood, families, growing up and peer pressure are explored through drama, discussion and written work.
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(One stormy night, five stranded schoolchildren uncover th...)
One stormy night, five stranded schoolchildren uncover the story of Richard Clayton Harwick – a boy who many years ago learned what it was like to have a truly wicked stepfather. But the children have stories of their own step-parents to tell – stories that have warmth and humour, as well as sadness, and a fair share of happy endings. ‘For children who have some similar experience, this novel will be therapeutic; for those who haven’t it’s an absorbing read, to make them laugh and cry’ Sunday Telegraph.
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( Harry's burned down the kitchen (by mistake) and blackm...)
Harry's burned down the kitchen (by mistake) and blackmailed Uncle Tristan into taking him along on holiday to a strange island, home to the bewitching Morning Glory, a host of bearded oddballs, only one tree - and nothing else but trouble. The ferry man did warn them, 'Glerhus Dill Sotblug!' But what on earth did it MEAN? And will they end up eating things on sticks? A hilarious tale from multi-award-winning author Anne Fine.
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(Anneli hates art - art lessons are awful and trips to gal...)
Anneli hates art - art lessons are awful and trips to galleries just make her squirm. Now she's got to try to find something precious in her attic to make some money to save the big house on the road, now a home for children with disabilities. It seems ridiculous, but when she looks, she finds a door leading through her attic and into a room in the next house. It's full, to Anneli's disgust, of paintings. But there she meets Mrs Pears who tells her about her brother Tom. He copied huge numbers of paintings by other artists, hoping to raise money to run away from his father who hated his painting. But he never used his running away fund - the war came, and he was killed, leaving his last painting to his sister Mrs Pears. Anneli is puzzled by the picture - it shows the big house, but with only six trees showing, instead of seven. She knows it's a clue, and finds the running away fund for Mrs Pears. And now they know how to make money to save the house - Anneli sits for her art class to recreate Tom's painting of Mrs Pears as a child, and the paintings are very successfully auctioned off to their parents.
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(Anne Fine 4 Books Collection Pack Set RRP: ú19.96 Title ...)
Anne Fine 4 Books Collection Pack Set RRP: ú19.96 Title In This Collection Are:- The Angel of Nitshill Road The Chicken Gave it to Me Ivan the Terrible Anneli the Art Hater The Angel of Nitshill Road The Chicken Gave it to Me Ivan the Terrible Anneli the Art Hater This is a classic school story from one of our best-loved authors. Until the angel came, Penny, Mark and Marigold were bitterly unhappy. 'Fat.' 'Freak.' 'Smelly.' Barry Hunter was bullying them and everyone at Nitshill Road School knew it. But the angel brings a clever solution. Life at school is going to be very different from now on. About the Author Anne Fine is one of the UK's best-loved authors. She was the Children's Laureate from 2001-2003. She has won the Carnegie Medal twice - in 1989 and 1992 - and the Whitbread Award twice - in 1993 and 1996. She has published over 50 titles for children, and also writes for adults. When Anne was Children's Laureate, she initiated a system to encourage children to begin a home library, by collecting book plates. These can still be downloaded from This is a classic story from one of our best-loved authors. Gemma doesn't believe a chicken could have written a book - chickens can't even read! But here in front of them is "The True Story of Harrowing Farm", and its scratchy pages definitely look, well, chickeny. It is an epic tale of cruelty and bravery, the story of a chicken who flies frillions of miles, reaching the heights of intergalactic superstardom, to try to save us humans...
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(On a wild and stormy night, five students are sent ahead ...)
On a wild and stormy night, five students are sent ahead on a school trip. Gathered together in a spooky mansion, they find a secret room and a mysterious old diary. Little do they know that they share a common bond: They are all members of stepfamilies. And each person reveals his story...step by step.
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(Anne Fine Collection 5 Books Set Titles in This Set The A...)
Anne Fine Collection 5 Books Set Titles in This Set The Angel of Nitshill Road The Chicken Gave it to Me Anneli the Art Hater Ivan the Terrible Saving Miss Mirabelle
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(Tom and Cass, twins, have always been inseparable. But To...)
Tom and Cass, twins, have always been inseparable. But Tom now realizes that Cass is changing - becoming more distant, growing up. He is disturbed and dismayed to find himself excluded from her increasingly private life. The author has also written "Madame Doubtfire".
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(When, like her cold and indifferent husband, Lois' old li...)
When, like her cold and indifferent husband, Lois' old life vanishes into thin air, she can't help snatching at the opportunity to come alive. There's only one fly in the ointment: Janie Gay, the feckless and spiteful mother of her wayward son's child. But as Lois takes her second - and redeeming - chance at love, she finds herself on a collision course with a society that claims to support and protect. Suddenly it seems that all those years of nurturing her own deep-frozen heart may not have been so wasted after all...
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(Daniel is born to be sloppy and likes pranks. His wife Mi...)
Daniel is born to be sloppy and likes pranks. His wife Miranda cannot bear this and divorces him. Daniel then only can find a job as a nude model for arts. When he gets to know Miranda is hiring a nanny whose pay is much higher than his being a model, he decides to disguise himself into a nanny of his ex-wifes -- Madame Doubtfire. However, there is one time when his model schedule crashes with the nanny job, which makes Daniel dressed as Madame Doubtfire to receive guests while acting as a model without makeup. In the middle of changing dress, Miranda returns home and knows everything. She gets so angry that the two part on bad terms.
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('I don't think my mum's fit to be a parent, really I don'...)
'I don't think my mum's fit to be a parent, really I don't.' How would you feel if your mother had royal-blue hair and wore lavender fishnet tights? But Minna's whole family (including her mum's punk boyfriend, Crusher Maggot) is a bit unusual. Being the only sensible one is not easy for Minna...
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( Lulu's intolerable. From the outset she wormed her way ...)
Lulu's intolerable. From the outset she wormed her way into the affections of her stepmother and, with spite as her principal hobby, spent every childhood moment trying to undermine poor Geraldine, her dumpy and hardworking stepsister. Now she's an adult: sexy, long-legged - and ruthless. Jobs, lovers, fashionable clothes: Lulu picks any and all at whim and drops them with equal ease, all the while confident that Geraldine and her faithfully supportive husband, Robert, will bail her out of every passing problem. But not even watchful Robert has realised quite how much Geraldine's exemplary patience has rested on one simple but long-lasting assumption about her own family. Could everything be about to change...?
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(Kitty Killin is not only a good story-teller but also the...)
Kitty Killin is not only a good story-teller but also the World's Great Expert when it comes to mothers having new and unwanted boyfriends, particularly when there's the danger they might turn into new and unwanted stepfathers.
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("Sentimental in only the right ways. . . .A perfectly cha...)
"Sentimental in only the right ways. . . .A perfectly charming collection." — THE HORN BOOK (starred review) The moment Jamie sets eyes on Angus in the toy shop, with his silky coat and forlorn gaze, he knows they belong together. On Christmas morning, the two are united at last, and the coveted Highland bull becomes Jamie’s constant companion — through an ill-fated run-in with the washing machine, Uncle Edward’s jump-training sessions, a stay at the hospital, and three more amusing adventures from Britain’s Children’s Laureate.
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(Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmo...)
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and from their volatile mother, Miranda, and their out-of-work actor father, Daniel. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will look mind the children after work - and Daniel gets the job, disguised as Madame Doubtfire. This bittersweet, touching and extremely funny book inspired the highly successful film Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams.
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(Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard are used to domes...)
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard are used to domestic turmoil and have been torn between their warring parents ever since the divorce. But all that changes when their mother takes on a most unusual cleaning lady.
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(When Kitty's mum gets a new boyfriend, everything changes...)
When Kitty's mum gets a new boyfriend, everything changes for Kitty. He is taking her mother away from her, but what can Kitty do to get her old life back? "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class.
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( In school, Yuri is taught that the revolution liberated...)
In school, Yuri is taught that the revolution liberated his country. He learns how the new leaders are always working for the greater good. But the truth is that life for his family and those around him is a brutal, poverty-stricken struggle. The government does nothing except punish those who protest. And one day, to his shock and horror, Yuri himself is branded an “enemy of the state” simply for dropping a few careless words. In an author’s note, Anne Fine describes The Road of Bones as an adventure-escape story set in “a sort-of Russia, in a sort-of 1930s, under a Stalin-type leader.” This chilling political thriller follows the frantic footsteps of a teenager on the run, a criminal who hasn’t committed a crime, a young man on a path to discovering the truth about how far he will go in order to survive.
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(This is a darkly comic novel about a family. Four childre...)
This is a darkly comic novel about a family. Four children persist in visiting their mother at Cold Demesnes - much to her irritation. Indeed, whenever any of them cross her, she pulls out yet another plant from the beautiful garden which is the emblem, for them, of their blissful childhood.
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(Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, ove...)
Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband.
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(Ione Muffet isn't going to sit around any more. Her Fathe...)
Ione Muffet isn't going to sit around any more. Her Father, Professor Muffet, says she does nothing all day, but Ione decides to make the most of the last few days of the holiday. With the help of her friend Ned Hump, she tries to put her plans into action.
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(Full of insight and dark humour, the story of a man, his ...)
Full of insight and dark humour, the story of a man, his two children and their stepmother, who gradually finds herself an outsider in her own home. Whether its lovers, colleagues or family, Tilly has always been good at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous to a fault, with his miserable little children and his manipulative ex-wife. Tilly’s own expertise in the arts of deception and avoidance should be enough to make sure she’s always one step ahead of Geoffrey’s crumbling family. But time and again she finds herself staying, brought down by their cowardly backsliding and their barefaced lies. How has she managed to stay so long in a relationship she knows perfectly well has to be doomed? More importantly, how can Tilly plan her permanent escape? Anne Fine’s sixth novel is a scintillating comedy about the ties that bind more savagely than any other — those of families.
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( Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen, holding down a ...)
Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen, holding down a responsible job, taking care of his elderly mother, and trying to keep his family together. But no one in his life knows about his other—much more secret—life, that involves a garden shed, a circus acrobat, a much adored three-year-old charmer, and a certain Mr. Haksar's increasingly disquieting penchant for squabbling with his neighbors. What Colin doesn't know is that, thanks to a house insurance policy incorrectly filled in by his mother, his two lives are set to collide, and there is nothing he can do to stop them.
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Fine, Anne was born on December 7, 1947 in Leicester, England. Daughter of Brian and Eileen Mary (Baker) Laker.
Bachelor with honors, University Warwick, England, 1968.
Teacher, Cardinal Wiseman Secondary School, Coventry, United Kingdom, 1968-1969; information officer, Oxfam, Oxford, England, 1969-1971; teacher, Saughton Prison, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1971-1972.
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(Kitty Killin is not only a good storyteller, but also the...)
( Anne Fine’s humorous and moving story of one boy’s atte...)
(When, like her cold and indifferent husband, Lois' old li...)
(Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard are used to domes...)
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( Blackmail - or negotiation? Mum and Dad reckon things w...)
(Anneli hates art - art lessons are awful and trips to gal...)
(On a wild and stormy night, five students are sent ahead ...)
( Anne Fine’s story of how one family looks after their a...)
(When Kitty's mum gets a new boyfriend, everything changes...)
(When Kitty's mum gets a new boyfriend, everything changes...)
( In school, Yuri is taught that the revolution liberated...)
(Ally's overbearing, acid-tongued mother makes his life di...)
(Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmo...)
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('I don't think my mum's fit to be a parent, really I don'...)
(Jamie and Angus Stories in Vietnamese (Jamie Va Cuu Bong))
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(Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign. When the annual ...)
(Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign. When the annual ...)
(Círculo de Lectores. Barcelona. 1993. 21 cm. 190 p. Encua...)
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(Book by Anne Fine)
(Book by Anne Fine)
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Married Kit Fine, August 3, 1968 (divorced 1991). Children: Ione, Cordelia.