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The pavee and the buffer girl / Siobhan Dowd ; illustrated by Emma Shoard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : The Bucket List, 2017.Description: 101 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781911370048 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.92 23
Summary: 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.
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F DOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 17/05/2024 R15700L0499

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.

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