Bullies, Ghosts and Jars Full of Smoke by Graham Garrity
For children 7 - 12 years
Here's a short excerpt.
My parents are always telling me that education is important and I should try my best to learn something new every day. Well they’d have been proud of me today because I learnt something I’ll never forget: The playground of Stowmere Secondary School smells like sweaty trainers and when you’re sucking it up through your nostrils because someone’s size nine is on the back of your head it really hurts!
The reason I came to be pinned to the playground by a size nine loafer was because of what Lenny Spencer did in the Science lesson.
The lesson was about how to test for acidity and alkalinity using universal indicator solution or litmus paper. For some reason Mr Wilcox decided it would be a good idea to test the pH factor of saliva and chose Spencer as a guinea pig.
Wilcox held a glass beaker in front of Spencer’s big gob and told him to dribble into it. Spencer, being the show off that he is, decided that dribbling was for babies so he hawked up a big grolly and spat. The trouble was it missed the beaker by a mile and splattered Wilcox’s wristwatch instead.
Apart from Wilcox, who looked like he was going to be sick and waved his arm about as though it was being attacked by a giant green jellyfish, everyone in class burst out laughing. But I laughed loudest of all and almost fell of my seat.
Bullies, Ghosts and Jars Full of Smoke by Graham Garrity
For children 7 - 12 years
Here's a short excerpt.
My parents are always telling me that education is important and I should try my best to learn something new every day. Well they’d have been proud of me today because I learnt something I’ll never forget: The playground of Stowmere Secondary School smells like sweaty trainers and when you’re sucking it up through your nostrils because someone’s size nine is on the back of your head it really hurts!
The reason I came to be pinned to the playground by a size nine loafer was because of what Lenny Spencer did in the Science lesson.
The lesson was about how to test for acidity and alkalinity using universal indicator solution or litmus paper. For some reason Mr Wilcox decided it would be a good idea to test the pH factor of saliva and chose Spencer as a guinea pig.
Wilcox held a glass beaker in front of Spencer’s big gob and told him to dribble into it. Spencer, being the show off that he is, decided that dribbling was for babies so he hawked up a big grolly and spat. The trouble was it missed the beaker by a mile and splattered Wilcox’s wristwatch instead.
Apart from Wilcox, who looked like he was going to be sick and waved his arm about as though it was being attacked by a giant green jellyfish, everyone in class burst out laughing. But I laughed loudest of all and almost fell of my seat.
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