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Informationen zum Autor Jack Sheffield grew up in the tough environment of Gipton Estate, in North East Leeds. After a job as a 'pitch boy', repairing roofs, he became a Corona Pop man before going to St John's College, York, and training to be a teacher. In the late seventies and eighties, he was a headteacher of two schools in North Yorkshire before becoming Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds. It was at this time he began to record his many amusing stories of village life as portrayed in Teacher, Teacher! , Mister Teacher , Dear Teacher , Village Teacher , Please Sir! , Educating Jack , School's Out! , Silent Night, Star Teacher , Happiest Days , Starting Over , Changing Times, Back to School, School Days and Last Day of School . He lives in Hampshire. Klappentext The latest in the "Teacher, Teacher!" series, for fans of James Herriot and Gervase Phinn. It's 1979 in the small village of Ragley-on-the-Forest, and Jack Sheffield returns for his 3rd year as headmaster of the village school. Zusammenfassung It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV, Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister, Abba is top of the pops, and in the small Yorkshire village of Ragley-on-the-Forest, Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school.
