How to Write Really Badly (Paperback)

Anne Fine

ISBN 10: 1405289007 / ISBN 13: 9781405289009

Published by HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2018

About this Item

Paperback. A classic funny school story from one of our best-loved authors, former Childrens Laureate Anne Fine. Chester Howard can see Joe's project 'How to Write Neatly' can only be a disaster. Joe makes a terrible mess of his work, jumbling letters and numbers up together. But a project called 'How to Write Really Badly' - now there's something Joe can do better than anyone else! And Chester is about to find there's a lot more to Joe than he expected. A classic childrens story from one of our best-loved authors, former Childrens Laureate Anne Fine. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Write Really Badly (Paperback)
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, London
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405289007
• ISBN 13: 9781405289009
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

When Joe chooses HOW TO WRITE NEATLY as his project, clever clogs Chester says to Miss Tate: "I think we're talking high hopes here."

Chester Howard can't believe it! He's been to all sorts of schools as his mother's jobs moved round the world, but never anywhere as awful as Walbottle Manor (Mixed). Everyone's so horribly nice, recommending him for blackboard duty, playing little skipping games at break. It's just awful. And Chester just has to get to work on the boy sitting next to him, Joe Gardener. He knows he's clever - Joe can build incredible models - but he can't get to grips with his school work and his desk is a mess beyond belief.

Miss Tate's 'How to...' projects supply Chester with an opportunity, and he starts Joe on a subversive project 'How to Write Really Badly'. For once, instead of battling through work he just doesn't begin to understand, this is something at which Joe excels. And Chester has his own project - he makes sure Joe's amazing technical abilities get a class award, and creates a book where Joe can mark off every one of the 1646 days he has left of school, before he can be free to do the things he's really good at.

About the Author

Anne Fine is one of the UK's best-loved authors. She was the Children's Laureate from 2001-2003 and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award twice. She has published over 50 books for children, including favourites such as Bill's New Frock, Ivan the Terrible and The Angel of Nitshill Road. When she was young, it never occurred to Anne that she might be a writer. But one day, unable to get to the library in a snowstorm, she sat down and started to write a novel. Clearly this was the right job for her, for she has never stopped writing for more than a few weeks since.