The Country Pancake: Part 5

By ANNE FINE

'I am Miss Mirabelle,' the vision said. 'Get off those windowsills. Stop fiddling about. Plonk your bums straight down on your little chairs, and listen to me.'

Extraordinary!

Half the class slid off the windowsills and crept to their seats. The other half stopped fiddling. There was absolute silence.

You could have heard a pin drop. Everyone stared, wide-eyed and open-mouthed, as Miss Mirabelle hitched up her flowery skirts, perched on the very edge of the teacher's desk, crossed her legs elegantly at the knee, and told them:

"I am your new teacher, and I think I should tell you right at the start that I can stand practically anything in the world, but I can't stand sniffers.'

She reached in her capacious woven bag and pulled out a huge box of paper tissues.

Publisher: Egmont

Price: $12.95

Age group: 8-10 yrs


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