Ribblestrop
By Andy Mulligan
Published by Simon and Schuster Children's Books
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Ribblestrop is not your average school – and this is not your average school story!
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Children's Book review
Ribblestrop is not your average school – and this is not your average school story!
Situated in a crumbling mansion, rife with rumours of underground tunnels, ghosts and secret World War II experiments, Ribblestrop's pupils have ‘colourful’ backgrounds (including Columbian gangster’s son, Sanchez, Millie, the girl every other school has expelled, and some Himalayan orphans) - and the teachers are equally unconventional.
But unconventionality becomes terrifying when Millie uncovers sinister goings-on, and the pupils are forced to take on venomous headmistress, Miss Hazlitt and her dastardly allies....
There’s a wonderful, anarchic energy to this funny, pacey, action-packed novel ; the teachers are crazy and the pupils irrepressibly resourceful. There are also fantastic football players and wonderfully nasty baddies. Every child’s fantasy school!
Reading age: 10+
Interest level: 10+
