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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Edinburgh : Barrington Stoke, 2019.Description: 105 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781781128794 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Cultural Capital: Dyslexia friendly font | Cultural Capital: Young Adult Fiction
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Originally published: Edinburgh: The Bucket List, 2017.

Dyslexic-friendly.

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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