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With Mr Smart taking over, new ideas quickly create tension, while teachers face overlapping personal and professional upheavals. The story tracks students with unusual strengths, romantic longing, shifting family pressures, and long-held plans disrupted by returning people—building toward whether the residents can unite for happiness despite the odds.","GervasePhinn  \nA TOP OF THE DALE NOVEL  \nChange is afoot in the usually sleepy village ofRisingdale.Gerald Gaunt,headmaster of theprimary school for over thirty years,is retiring.It is the end of an era and Gerald hopes thathis replacement will work with him to securea bright,happy future for the school.But MrSmart has his own ideas about how thingsshould be run,and things start to becomefraught very quickly.  \nOn top of this,the teachers have plenty of otherdramas to contend with.Still dealing witha class of children who seem to understandagriculture better than arithmetic,Tom Dwyeris pining over Janette,his one-that-got-away.Meanwhile,his colleague Joyce Tranter's newmarital bliss is shattered by the arrival of herhusband's avaricious,scheming nephew.Andelsewhere in the village,Sir Hedley's long-cherished plans for his future are jeopardisedby the arrival back in his life of his bitter,desperate ex-wife.  \nCan the residents of Risingdale pull togetherand achieve happiness against the odds?  \nWith a lively cast of characters both old andnew and countless laugh-out-loud moments,A Class Actis a warm,enchanting portrayalof life in a small Yorkshire village.  \nDUDLEY PUBLIC LIBRARIES  \nThe loan of this book may be renewed if not required by otherreaders,by contacting the library from which it was borrowed.  \n000003078573  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/classact0000phin  \n# A Class Act\n\n# THETOP OFTHE DALE SERIESThe School at the Top of the DaleTales Out of School\n\nTHE LITTLEVILLAGE SCHOOL SERIESThe Little Village SchoolTrouble at the Little Village SchoolThe School Inspector Calls!A Lesson in Love  \nTHE DALES SERIESThe Other Side of the DaleOver Hill and DaleHead Over Heels in the DalesUp and Down in the DalesThe Heart of the DalesA Wayne in a MangerTwinkle,Twinkle,Little StarsA Load of Old TripeThe Virgin Mary's Got NitsOut of the Woods but not Over the Hill  \nPOETRY  \nIt Takes One to Know OneThe Day Our Teacher Went BattyFamily PhantomsDon't Tell the Teacher  \nGervasePhinn  \nClass  \n| DUDLEY  \u003Cbr>LIBRARIES   |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 000003078573   |  |\n| Askews &Holts   | 29-Mar-2021   |\n| AF   | f16.99   |\n| 2LL   |  |\n\nFirst published in Great Britain in 2021 by Hodder &StoughtonAn Hachette UK company  \n1  \nCopyright ◎ Gervase Phinn 2021  \nThe right of Gervase Phinn to be identified as the Author of the Work has beenasserted by him in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,storedin a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means withoutthe prior written permission of the publisher,nor be otherwise circulatedin any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published andwithout a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.  \nAll characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblanceto real persons,living or dead,is purely coincidental.  \nA CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library  \nHardback ISBN 9781473650701eBook ISBN 9781473650695  \nTypeset in Plantin by Manipal Technologies LimitedPrinted and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd,Elcograf S.p.A  \nHodder &Stoughton policy is to use papers that are natural,renewableand recyclable products and made from wood grown in sustainableforests.The logging and manufacturing processes are expected toconform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.  \nHodder &Stoughton LtdCarmelite House50Victoria EmbankmentLondon EC4Y ODZ  \nwww.hodder.co.uk  \nTo Samuel and Elodie","cbCaimuRrRKwhMcn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimuRrRKwhMcn","pdf",19419675,408,"English","en",105,"# A Class Act\n## The retirement of Gerald Gaunt and the arrival of Mr Smart\n## Classroom and relationship dramas in Risingdale","[{\"question\":\"Why does the village of Risingdale face upheaval at the start of the story?\",\"answer\":\"Gerald Gaunt, headmaster for over thirty years, is retiring, and his replacement, Mr Smart, brings different ideas about how the school should run.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of problems do the teachers and residents deal with besides school management?\",\"answer\":\"Teachers handle personal dramas and strained relationships, while other village characters confront long-cherished plans disrupted by difficult returns.\"},{\"question\":\"What question drives the plot toward the end?\",\"answer\":\"Whether the residents of Risingdale can pull together and achieve happiness against the odds, despite rapid changes and competing pressures.\"}]","A Class Act - 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