TY  - BOOK
AU  - Read
AU  - Dicker,Kate
TI  - Tales from a village school
SN  - 0395717620
AV  - PR6069.A42 T34 1995
U1  - 823/.914 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Co.
KW  - Thrush Green (Imaginary place)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Country life
KW  - England
KW  - Villages
KW  - Schools
KW  - Pastoral fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Contents: Foreword (p.vii) -- Acknowledgements (p.vi) -- The lucky hole (p.1) -- Eskimos in the sand tray (p.6) -- Harvest festival (p.10) -- School dinner for forty (p.15) -- Michaelmas fair (p.20) -- Damage by conkers (p.24) -- Conkers and gingernuts (p.28) - Gunpowder, treason and plot (p.33) -- Snurling (p.36) -- Christmas cards for forty (p.41) -- The craftsman (p.44) -- Carols for forty (p.45) -- Forty in the wings (p.51) -- Sleigh bells for the village school (p.55) -- Snow on their books (p.61) -- Odour of sanctity (p.66) -- Winter gloom (p.71) -- Unstable element (p.76) -- Black magic (p.80) -- Stiff test for forty (p.85) -- The visitor (p.89) -- Conflicting evidence (p.92) -- Rain on my desk (p.95) -- Thirty-one and a donkey (p.99); Contents (cont.): Economy for forty (p.104) -- The real thing (p.107) -- Nature walk for forty (p.111) -- Wild surmise (p.116) -- Goldfish and frogspawn (p.120) -- Eight-a-side cricket (p.124) -- Night and day (p.128) -- The runaway (p.132) -- Borrow a pound (p.136) -- The flag (p.139) -- Lost property (p.143) -- PT for forty (p.147) -- Clerical error (p.151) -- Afterglow (p.155) -- Soft and hard boiled (p.159) -- Last day of term (p.163)
N2  - 40 stories in the life of a village schoolteacher
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0728/95019637-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/95019637-b.html
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/talesfromvillage00read
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL787343M
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