Ribblestrop

by Andy Mulligan

Book Overview

When your school's motto is "Life is dangerous," you know that anything can happen--and everything does! This raucous tale of education gone awry is "rollicking, ridiculous, and captivating,"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442499044
• ISBN13: 9781442499041
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Beach Lane Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Tongue in cheek humour for adult readers

A very unusual book with fast action and tongue in cheek humour about ...kids in a very unusual and dangerous boarding school. Kids drink, steal, use fire arms; their parents and teachers represent a bunch of well known stereotypes: Colombian gangster, helpless visionary headmaster, a villain scientist, crooked policeman, and a military hero. The idea of teaching children everything through "hands-on experience" is taken to the extremes. The right age group for this book is 15 and up, since younger kids will probably take everything at the face value, but they'll enjoy it at the different level. This book reminds me of "Molesworth" by Willans and Searle, although the style is different.