Böcker av Fran Hill

Bittersweet and funny, Home Bird draws on Fran Hill's own experiences as a teenager in foster care.

It's the heatwave summer of 1976 and 14-year-old would be poet Jackie Chadwick is newly fostered by the Walls. She desperately needs stability, but their insecure, jealous teenage daughter isn't happy about the cuckoo in the nest and sets about ousting her.

A humorous but life-affirming story set in the manic world of the busy teacher's life in which it's not just the pupils who misbehave. A memoir, in the form of a diary, by 'the Victoria Wood of the classroom'.

This book provides senior teachers and advisory staff with a model in which to set up either whole school or departmental peer support networks, which contains encouragement for increased collaboration between teachers and practical activities to enhance the notion of support and teamwork. In the RESOURCE MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS series.