The pavee and the buffer girl /
Dowd, Siobhan,
The pavee and the buffer girl / Siobhan Dowd ; illustrated by Emma Shoard. - Edinburgh : The Bucket List, 2017. - 101 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Originally published: as part of Skin deep. London: Puffin, 2004.
Jim and his family have halted by Dundray and the education people have been round mouthing the law. In school the Traveller kids suffer at the hands of teachers and other pupils alike, called 'tinker-stinkers', 'dirty gyps' and worse. Then the punches start. The only friendly face is Kit, a settle girl who takes Jim under her wing and teaches him to read in the great cathedral chamber in the cave below the town.
9781911370048 (pbk.) : £12.99
Irish Travellers (Nomadic people)--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Teenage Fiction.
General.
823.92
The pavee and the buffer girl / Siobhan Dowd ; illustrated by Emma Shoard. - Edinburgh : The Bucket List, 2017. - 101 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Originally published: as part of Skin deep. London: Puffin, 2004.
Jim and his family have halted by Dundray and the education people have been round mouthing the law. In school the Traveller kids suffer at the hands of teachers and other pupils alike, called 'tinker-stinkers', 'dirty gyps' and worse. Then the punches start. The only friendly face is Kit, a settle girl who takes Jim under her wing and teaches him to read in the great cathedral chamber in the cave below the town.
9781911370048 (pbk.) : £12.99
Irish Travellers (Nomadic people)--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Teenage Fiction.
General.
823.92