At the Sign of the Dog and Rocket

Award-winning Jan Mark has written yet another wryly observed, amusing book for young people with this light-hearted, chaos-stricken story of pub life. When the landlady is away and the landlord is flat on his back (disc, not drink!), Lilian, their capable teenage daughter, is forced to take charge. As if that's not enough, the only other help available is the student teacher whose life she'd spent a term making miserable. Fortunately for both, the bossy young madam comes to see that teachers bruise easily (literally) and like most humans have unique kinds of bottle if given a good head! Warmly recommended by my Year-3 testers.