Contents
Cover
About the Book
Title Page
Dedication
Chapter One: Miss Porter’s Secret
Chapter Two: Miss Porter Changes
Chapter Three: In Trouble
Chapter Four: The Rescue
About the Author
Also by Malorie Blackman
Copyright
Series Reading Consultant: Prue Goodwin
Lecturer in Literacy and Children’s Books, University of Reading
About the Book
“Delicious!”
Mira loves crisps – they’re her favourite food in the whole, wide world. But when she opens a packet on her first day at a new school, the whole class gasps in horror.
For Miss Porter, their teacher, is a MONSTER crisp-guzzler. And something very strange happens when she guzzles crisps …
About the Author
MALORIE BLACKMAN is acknowledged as one of today’s most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. Her book Noughts & Crosses has won several prizes, including the Children’s Book Award. Malorie is also the only author to have won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award twice with Hacker and Thief! Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers.
In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children’s books.
In 2008, she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature.
www.malorieblackman.co.uk
Also available by Malorie Blackman
and published by Doubleday/Corgi Yearling Books:
The Noughts & Crosses sequence
Noughts & Crosses
Knife Edge
Checkmate
Double Cross
The Stuff of Nightmares
Boys Don’t Cry
A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E.
Dangerous Reality
Dead Gorgeous
Hacker
Pig-Heart Boy
The Deadly Dare Mysteries
Thief!
Unheard Voices
(An anthology of short stories and poems, collected by Malorie Blackman)
For junior readers, published by Corgi Yearling Books:
Cloud Busting
Operation Gadgetman!
Whizziwig and Whizziwig Returns
For beginner readers, published by Corgi Pups/ Young Corgi Books:
Jack Sweettooth
Snow Dog
Space Race