from the back cover: Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventu…
Offers advice about things from parent interviews, seeking promotion, to taking assembly and surviving Ofsted. This book covers the various practicalities - from choosing the right course and getting into your first-choice college, through to finding the right teaching post for you and juggling a life with your new career.
from the back cover: Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is a Toby Hall. Why does he find there? And there are the Hessian brothers …
Norman the goldfish wasn't what this little boy had in mind. He wanted a different kind of pet--one that could run and catch, or chase strings and climb trees, a soft furry pet to sleep on his bed at night. Not NormanBut when he tries to trade Norman for a "good pet", things don't go as he planned. Could it be that Norman is a better pet than he thought?