Alice-Miranda At School

by Jacqueline Harvey
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Move over, Matilda, and step aside, Madeline, there's a new charming miniature heroine about to make her mark.

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Can one tiny girl change a very big school?Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones is waving goodbye to her weeping parents and starting her first day at boarding school. But something is wrong at Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies. The headmistress, Miss Grimm, hasn't been seen for ten years. The prize-winning flowers are gone. And a mysterious stranger is camping in the greenhouse. Alice-Miranda must complete a series of impossible tests. Can she really beat the meanest, most spoilt girl at school in a solo sailing mission? Could she camp in the forest all on her own for five whole days and nights? Well, of course. This is Alice-Miranda, after all.

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Recently I met a group of children who were very familiar with my friend Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones.  It was great hearing their thoughts about this little character with whom I spend so much of my time.  At this particular school, some Year 4 students, having had the first few chapters of Alice-Miranda at School read aloud to them brainstormed ideas about her.  They said things...

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  1. Kate1010 stars

    5 November 2011 at 3:41pm

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    LOVED this book!!! Couldn't stop reading. Wish i could do things like Alice-Miranda.

  2. Yasmine0 stars

    5 November 2011 at 4:50pm

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    I love alice-miranda bookks there the BEST!

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