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This book is one of the literature component for secondary school in Malaysia. Although I'm not using it in my school, at least as a teacher I should know the story. Therefore, I read it. In my opinion, this novel aren't not the best among those novels assingn for form 5 but it wasn't the worst. Its Leggi tutto

This is a really sweet middle-grade novel about a bunch of kids that all have step-parents. Even though I don't, I feel like it was written really realistically about blended families and the benefits and downfalls to them.

Anne Fine writes a lot of books about children with separated parents. This was very handy to me when I was 12 and I first discovered her books, as I was sure my parents were on the brink of divorce and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I read all the Fine books about children from broken hom Leggi tutto

A re read I adore Anne Fine’s books and this is a favourite: five stories of coming to terms with blended families. One of the things that makes Fine’s work stand out is the vivid portrayals of adults as actual people. It just appendages, and in this book, it’s one of the lessons that the children l Leggi tutto

The story of four young kids who think they have absolutely nothing in common but find out they have one thing in common. Stuck for the night in an old house, they find an old diary that gets them talking. By sharing their stories and their feelings they are able to listen and help each other.

The Breakfast Club for middle schoolers

Great children’s book. I recommended it to a few of my students when they were going through a tough time. Like me, they really enjoyed reading it and it got some of them into reading.

A group of children find them selves sharing a room in an old house, and share stories of their experiences with stepmothers, stepfathers, stepsiblings etc.