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The Haunting of Uncle Ron

Paperback

A pesky uncle simply won’t leave in this funny family tale from award-winning author Anne Fine.

When Uncle Ron comes to visit, he just won't seem to leave! Ian, Mum and Dad don't quite know what do with him – if he's not eating them out of house and home, he's chattering away to the spirits of the dead. But not interesting spirits. All they ever seem to talk about is the colour of doors and what's stuck behind the fridge. So Ian hatches a plan to get rid of Uncle Ron once and for all.

Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 7.

RRP: £7.99

Imprint

Barrington Stoke

ISBN

978-1-78112-285-3

Interest age

9+

Reading age

7

Publication Date

04-02-2014

Format

Paperback

Pages

64 pages

Dimensions

130x198mm

Product Description

A pesky uncle simply won’t leave in this funny family tale from award-winning author Anne Fine.

When Uncle Ron comes to visit, he just won't seem to leave! Ian, Mum and Dad don't quite know what do with him – if he's not eating them out of house and home, he's chattering away to the spirits of the dead. But not interesting spirits. All they ever seem to talk about is the colour of doors and what's stuck behind the fridge. So Ian hatches a plan to get rid of Uncle Ron once and for all.

Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 7.

Author

Anne Fine, Illustrated by Vicki Gausden

An acclaimed and award-winning author of books for both adults and children, Anne Fine was the second Waterstones Children’s Laureate holding the post from 2001 to 2003. Fine began writing in the 1970’s and since then has written more than seventy books for children of all ages as well as novels for adults. Amongst her best-known works are Goggle-Eyes, which won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the coveted Carnegie Medal, Flour Babies, which also won the Carnegie, Madame Doubtfire, later adapted into the hit children’s film Mrs Doubtfire, and Bill’s New Frock. In 2003 Anne Fine was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE.

Imprint

Barrington Stoke

ISBN

978-1-78112-285-3

Reading age

7

Interest age

9+

Publication Date

04-02-2014

Format

Paperback

Pages

64 pages

Dimensions

130x198mm

Product Description

A pesky uncle simply won’t leave in this funny family tale from award-winning author Anne Fine.

When Uncle Ron comes to visit, he just won't seem to leave! Ian, Mum and Dad don't quite know what do with him – if he's not eating them out of house and home, he's chattering away to the spirits of the dead. But not interesting spirits. All they ever seem to talk about is the colour of doors and what's stuck behind the fridge. So Ian hatches a plan to get rid of Uncle Ron once and for all.

Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 7.

Author

Anne Fine, Illustrated by Vicki Gausden

An acclaimed and award-winning author of books for both adults and children, Anne Fine was the second Waterstones Children’s Laureate holding the post from 2001 to 2003. Fine began writing in the 1970’s and since then has written more than seventy books for children of all ages as well as novels for adults. Amongst her best-known works are Goggle-Eyes, which won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the coveted Carnegie Medal, Flour Babies, which also won the Carnegie, Madame Doubtfire, later adapted into the hit children’s film Mrs Doubtfire, and Bill’s New Frock. In 2003 Anne Fine was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE.