Ghost Writer

Informationen zum Autor Julia Jarman has written over 80 books for children. She lives near Bedford with her husband and has three grown-up children. She has been a school teacher and journalist but she now devotes a lot of time to school and library visits to talk to children about writing. Zusammenfassung Take a boy with a reading problem! a protective mother! and a village primary school set in its original 19th century buildings and there are all the ingredients for an accessible modern ghost story... Frankie likes his school even though his bullying teacher thinks that 'dyslexic' is another name for lazy. But who is the ghost boy who writes 'GET HER' on the blackboard in the original classroom - and what is his connection with the cupboard at the back? What really happened in the influenza epidemic that swept the village 70 years before - and who died in it?

Préface
A welcome reissue of this NASEN book about a dyslexic boy who must solve the riddle of the ghost at the village school.

Auteur
Julia Jarman has written over 80 books for children. She lives near Bedford with her husband and has three grown-up children. She has been a school teacher and journalist but she now devotes a lot of time to school and library visits to talk to children about writing.

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Frankie wants to stay in this school that he likes, even though there is a teacher who thinks that “dyslexic” is another name for lazy. Who is the ghost boy who writes: GET HER on the blackboard in the old classroom — and what is his connection with the cupboard at the back? What really happened in the influenza epidemic that swept the village seventy years before — and who died in it?

Résumé
Take a boy with a reading problem, a protective mother, and a village primary school set in its original 19th century buildings and there are all the ingredients for an accessible modern ghost story...

Frankie likes his school even though his bullying teacher thinks that 'dyslexic' is another name for lazy. But who is the ghost boy who writes 'GET HER' on the blackboard in the original classroom - and what is his connection with the cupboard at the back? What really happened in the influenza epidemic that swept the village 70 years before - and who died in it?