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Boy : tales of childhood / Roald Dahl.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 160 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374373744 (hdbk.)
  • 9780374373740 (hdbk.)
  • 0140318909 (pbk.)
  • 0141303050 (pbk.)
  • 9780142413814 (pbk.)
  • 9780613639224 (Turtleback bdg.)
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Contents:
Starting-point: Papa and Mama -- Kindergarten, 1922-3 -- Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923-5 (age 7-9): Bicycle and the sweet-shop -- Great mouse plot -- Mr. Coombes -- Mrs. Pratchett's revenge -- Going to Norway -- Magic Island -- Visit to the doctor -- St. Peter's, 1925-9 (age 9-13): First day -- Writing home -- Matron -- Homesickness -- Drive in the motor-car -- Captain Hardcastle -- Little Ellis and the boil -- Goat's tobacco -- Repton and Shell, 1929-36 (age 13-20): Getting dressed for the big school -- Boazers -- Headmaster -- Chocolates -- Corkers -- Fagging -- Games and photography -- Goodbye school.
Summary: Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.
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Starting-point: Papa and Mama -- Kindergarten, 1922-3 -- Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923-5 (age 7-9): Bicycle and the sweet-shop -- Great mouse plot -- Mr. Coombes -- Mrs. Pratchett's revenge -- Going to Norway -- Magic Island -- Visit to the doctor -- St. Peter's, 1925-9 (age 9-13): First day -- Writing home -- Matron -- Homesickness -- Drive in the motor-car -- Captain Hardcastle -- Little Ellis and the boil -- Goat's tobacco -- Repton and Shell, 1929-36 (age 13-20): Getting dressed for the big school -- Boazers -- Headmaster -- Chocolates -- Corkers -- Fagging -- Games and photography -- Goodbye school.

Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.

1020L Lexile.

Accelerated Reader MG 6.0 6 9543.

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