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," according a Bulletin starred review. There's no school that's quite like Ribblestrop, complete with roofless dormitories, distracted teachers, and a perilous underground labyrinth. And then there are the students! You'll meet Sanchez, a Colombian gangster's son hiding from kidnappers; Millie, an outcast arsonist and self-confessed wild child; Caspar, the landlady's spoiled grandson; the helpful but hapless Sam and his best friend Ruskin, plus a handful of orphans from overseas who are just happy to have beds--even if they are located in the roofless part of the building. With the "crazy-school appeal of Hogwarts and the grim humor of Lemony Snicket" (The Independent), Ribblestrop, which was awarded the Children's Fiction Prize by The Guardian, is sure to delight the most mischievous among us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442499052
• ISBN13: 9781442499058
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Beach Lane Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• 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.