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  • Star Teacher

  • Teacher Series, Book 9
  • By: Jack Sheffield
  • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
  • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (30 ratings)

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Summary

It's 1985, and as Jack returns for another year as head teacher at Ragley village school, some changes are in store.

It's the year of Halley's Comet, Band Aid, Trivial Pursuit, Dynasty shoulder pads, Roland Rat and Microsoft Windows. And at Ragley-on-the-Forest, Heathcliffe Earnshaw decides to enter the village scarecrow competition, Ruby the caretaker finds romance and retirement looms for Vera the secretary.

Meanwhile Jack has to battle with some rising stars of the teaching profession to save his job and his school....

©2015 Jack Sheffield (P)2016 Random House Audiobooks
Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction
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Critic reviews

"Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure." (Alan Titchmarsh)
"Overflowing with amusing anecdotes." (Daily Express)
"Amusing adventures at the North Yorkshire village school." (Choice)
"Jack Sheffield's in a class of his own." (York Press)

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Brilliant read

As always brilliant - but we did lose the thread of Laura and Tom a little.

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Love these tales of a village headmaster

The narration was all wrong. I'ts not the same without Jack Sheffield. May have to return this as I dislike the narrator so much.

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