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Fairacre series volume 15
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1985, ©1984
Language
English
Description
Summer arrives in Fairacre, and "Joseph Coggs finds a temporary home in the schoolhouse while his mother is in the hospital. Miss Read's friend Amy mysteriously disappears. Perhaps most difficult of all, Mrs. Pringle, the grumpy school cleaner, is unable to work because the pain in her bad leg flares up."--Cover.
7) Thrush green
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Series
Language
English
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The effects on many lives in the village of Thrush Green, in Southern England, when a carnival comes to town on May Day.
Author
Series
Fairacre series volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The 39th book by Miss Read (the real-life Dora Saint) is a delightful collection of 40 stories, first published 40 years ago in England, and based on her own lifelong involvement with country schools as a village schoolteacher in the Berkshires.
Miss Read, a teacher, describes the course of one school year in the rural English community of Tyler's Row.
Author
Series
Fairacre series volume 4
Language
English
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Description
The retired English village schoolteacher recalls her long life which, for all its outward serenity, has much personal drama.
Author
Series
Fairacre series volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Miss Read, the headmistress of Fairacre School, learns of a proposed new housing development that soon has the citizens of Fairacre up in arms.
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Series
Thrush Green series volume 11
Language
English
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The village of Thrush Green is a particularly close-knit community, where most of the inhabitants have known one another since childhood. The visit of retired school teachers Miss Watson and Miss Fogerty gives great pleasure to all. The new headmaster, Alan Lester, is cautiously approved; while the behavior of farmer Percy Hodge is also a cause of local speculation. All these matters and more take place against the familiar background and changing...
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