Flour babies

Difficult adolescents study in this class - charming lazy lazy people. Study and discipline for them is an empty phrase. At the beginning of the year, they are invited to participate in the school project: for three weeks to care for a bag full of flour, the so -called "flour baby". And it was then that the most notorious hooligans and shalopai begin their unique discoveries of the adult world: they find in themselves those features that they did not suspect, whether commerce and business, care and responsibility, sentimentality and tolerance ... Anne Fine with subtle observation and an invariable feeling Humor monitors the thoughts and feelings that her heroes experience during the experiment. Some of them first think about what they are and why they live. The story "Flour babies" was awarded the Carnegie medals in 1993, the most prestigious prize in British literature for children, and then many other literary awards in the UK, the USA, and was translated into many European languages. This is a reprint in the new design of the story, which was already published in the "Samokat" in 2012.
For senior school age