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Summer at Fairacre
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780618127047
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0618127046
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: May 15, 2001
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
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Editorial Review:
After a long winter of red noses and wet mittens, summer is a welcome time for Miss Read and her downland village friends. SUMMER AT FAIRACRE charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the background of roses, skylarks, and bees. Joseph Coggs finds a temporary home in the schoolhouse while his mother is in the hospital. Miss Read's friend Amy mysteriously disappears. Perhaps most difficult of all, Mrs. Pringle, the grumpy school cleaner, is unable to work because the pain in her bad leg flares up. Still, the sounds of children playing and the fragrance of summertime flowers fill the air, as Miss Read shepherds her students and friends through the warm season.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Love Visiting with Miss Read
I highly recommend Miss Read books to everyone who enjoys reading stories about small towns with characters who have English wit and humor. It is wonderful that these books are being reprinted.
Rating:  - Sickeningly 'Pleasantville' Esque, Minus the Humor
While I am not someone who is particularly seeking adventure and longing to live on the wild side, I'm afraid my own life story would frighten the main character to a dead faint on the spot. That is as plain true a description can be made for a novel in desperately desirous need of a little spice and sizzle. This unnapealing and even toned dud is so unwelcomed in it's old-fashioned attitude, so noticeably out of date, that is it tooth grinding to get through. In all it's faults, perhaps worse off ... Read More
Rating: - A nice treat
This particular year in the English village of Fairacre has seen a cold snowy winter. On the first day of spring, the grounds are still filled with snow. Custodial worker Mrs. Pringle is not just her usual sourpuss self. She claims her leg has not flared up as it has on numerous occasions due to the mistakes of the schoolmistress Miss Read. This time Miss Read learns that Mrs. Pringle's niece with the low IQ caused the noticeable limp. However, unlike the many "bad leg" moments in the ... Read More
Rating: - Delightful surprise!
My wife took this series out of our local library for a car trip. Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers) is the reader and does a wonderful job. I've never read Miss Read before but definitely want to now. I feel like I've already visited Fairacre!
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