- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 074974832X
- ISBN-13: 978-0749748326
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas overhear their parents discussing putting their elderly and sometimes dotty grandmother into a home and decide they must do something. Hence the Granny Project is born. They do eventually succeed in keeping Granny at home, by taking on much of the responsibility of caring for her themselves. Anne Fine again manages to tackle a sensitive subject with dignity and humour, while not denying the problems faced by families in this situation. (10 yrs +) (Kirkus UK)
More bright, knife-edge humor from the author of The Summer House Loon (1979), this time in a more earnestly juvenile story of the four Harris children and their scheme to keep Granny out of a nursing home. We are introduced to the Harrises through the family doctor's eyes, in a splendid, unflattering opening scene that makes the kids look like ill-bred gluttons and their mother, "the beautiful Natasha,' a slovenly and heartless monster. Harry Harris, the kids' father and Granny's son, is no more sentimental: "I've found a use for her at last," he says of his mother at one point. "We'll prop her up in the front window to frighten off the Avon Lady." The project, conceived by Sophie as a joint social-studies effort but carried out more resolutely by the single-minded Ivan, will be an uncensored record (complete with "charts and appendices") of one family's problems with an aged member. Ivan's plan is to blackmail his father, who teaches at the same school: he'll hand in these scandalous revelations unless the parents agree to keep Granny at home. (The two younger children, resentful of their lesser role, are to back up the effort with nightmares about an incarcerated Granny.) But Sophie, and readers too, begin to sympathize with the middle generation that must cope with soiled sheets, irrational middle-of-the-night demands, and disapproving looks from strangers at the polling place who think Dad is forcing Granny to vote his way when it's really she who's insisted on coming along. And when Mr. Harris agrees to Ivan's demand on the condition that the children take over Granny's care while the parents go off to dancing, woodshop, and language classes, Ivan finds himself with a full-time job. But he proves devotedly attentive to Granny, and when she finally dies it is he, who had seemed the "fanatic" with noble ideals and no feelings, who feels it hardest. Fine stoops to a too-pat and too-shallow resolution in Ivan's ultimate, premature decision to become an industrial organizer - the end result of his troubled mulling over feelings vs. ideals, revolution vs. small improvements. But this is not central to the story, and overall her sparkling rendition of the kids' subversive scheming is a perpetual delight. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
More bright, knife-edge humor from the author of The Summer House Loon (1979), this time in a more earnestly juvenile story of the four Harris children and their scheme to keep Granny out of a nursing home. We are introduced to the Harrises through the family doctor's eyes, in a splendid, unflattering opening scene that makes the kids look like ill-bred gluttons and their mother, "the beautiful Natasha,' a slovenly and heartless monster. Harry Harris, the kids' father and Granny's son, is no more sentimental: "I've found a use for her at last," he says of his mother at one point. "We'll prop her up in the front window to frighten off the Avon Lady." The project, conceived by Sophie as a joint social-studies effort but carried out more resolutely by the single-minded Ivan, will be an uncensored record (complete with "charts and appendices") of one family's problems with an aged member. Ivan's plan is to blackmail his father, who teaches at the same school: he'll hand in these scandalous revelations unless the parents agree to keep Granny at home. (The two younger children, resentful of their lesser role, are to back up the effort with nightmares about an incarcerated Granny.) But Sophie, and readers too, begin to sympathize with the middle generation that must cope with soiled sheets, irrational middle-of-the-night demands, and disapproving looks from strangers at the polling place who think Dad is forcing Granny to vote his way when it's really she who's insisted on coming along. And when Mr. Harris agrees to Ivan's demand on the condition that the children take over Granny's care while the parents go off to dancing, woodshop, and language classes, Ivan finds himself with a full-time job. But he proves devotedly attentive to Granny, and when she finally dies it is he, who had seemed the "fanatic" with noble ideals and no feelings, who feels it hardest. Fine stoops to a too-pat and too-shallow resolution in Ivan's ultimate, premature decision to become an industrial organizer - the end result of his troubled mulling over feelings vs. ideals, revolution vs. small improvements. But this is not central to the story, and overall her sparkling rendition of the kids' subversive scheming is a perpetual delight. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Explore themes of ageism, family roles and parenting in this funny drama by award-winning writer Anne Fine
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really good book fun to read and use at school. kids enjoyed the story and had good conversations discussing the story.
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A great book costing alot less than if purchaesd in a book shop. The book arrived in good time and was in the condition as it was described.
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This review is from: The Granny Project (Paperback)
This book is about a family that need to take care of their granny so they loose all of their holidays. Henry, the children's dad and Natasha, the mother, wants to send her to a Home but the children (Sophie, Ivan, Nicholas & Tanya) don't want. Granny ends up staying and not going to the Home but the children's parent said that they would need to take care of granny while they go out dancing and doing fun stuff. When almost everything is in the place again Granny dies. I read this book at my English lessons and i am going to have a test on it. At the beggining of the book i thought it was a really boring book but when it was in the middle i thought it was more interesting. In conclusion this is a good book !!
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