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Round Behind The Ice House

Round Behind The Ice House

by Anne Fine (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Corgi Childrens
Published: 01 Jun 2006
ISBN 10: 0552552682
ISBN 13: 9780552552684
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
 Book Overview: A gripping tale of growing up - and becoming an individual - from multi award-wininng author Anne Fine.

Media Reviews
A very real sense of menace as this unusual and original book races to its climax * Guardian *
Passionately honest * The Sunday Times *
A fearless novelist * Independent *
A children's writer of rare gifts * TES *
Author Bio
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children's book world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, 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