The Granny Project
by Anne Fine
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'What does he mean? What's going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home?' 'Thinking is finished,' Natasha told him. 'It is decided.' The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can't believe it. Their parents are planning to put their grandmother into a Home. She's a bit of a dotty old lady - sometimes demanding, often annoying - but as much a part of their lives as their shambly house or the whirring of the washing machine. So they decide to take action. They begin show more 'The Granny Project', with immediate and sensational results . . . show lessTags
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Anne Fine was the second Children's Laureate in Britain between 2001 and 2003. She is a two time winner of the Carnegie Medal, Britain's most coveted children's literature award, and has also won the Guardian Children's Literature Award, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award twice, and a Smarties Prize. She also won the Publishing News Children's show more Author of the Year Award in 1990 and again in 1993. In 2010 she won the inaugural Good Writing Award. Her books for older children include the award winning The Tulip Touch, Goggle-Eyes, which was adapted for television by the BBC and The Devil Walks. Twentieth Century Fox filmed her novel Madame Doubtfire as Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. She also writes critically acclaimed adult novels as well. Her work has been translated into twenty-five languages, and has over forty books to her credit. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Das Oma-Projekt
- Original title
- The Granny Project
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters*
- Iwan; Sophie; Tanja; Nicholas
- Dedication
- For Boris
- First words*
- Ein Doktor hatte es nicht leicht mit der Familie Harris.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Und Sophie erwiderte vergnügt: "Okay, Kumpel."
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