Believe - English, Frank; Jancarova, Linda
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Eleven-year-old Linda loved her life in England - the country of her birth; until, that is, Mamma and Papa decided to relocate to the country of their birth, a country in Europe some 1,084 miles from the children's original home in England. This had been a family decision - that didn't include Linda and her eight year-old sister, Vanda. Suddenly they were uprooted from their wide society of close friends in school to be transplanted into a country that they neither knew nor wanted to know. How do you accept a language with which you are neither familiar nor have any desire to learn? Linda…mehr

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Eleven-year-old Linda loved her life in England - the country of her birth; until, that is, Mamma and Papa decided to relocate to the country of their birth, a country in Europe some 1,084 miles from the children's original home in England. This had been a family decision - that didn't include Linda and her eight year-old sister, Vanda. Suddenly they were uprooted from their wide society of close friends in school to be transplanted into a country that they neither knew nor wanted to know. How do you accept a language with which you are neither familiar nor have any desire to learn? Linda decided that she really needed to stay in touch with her besties, Poppy and Scarlette, but how would she be able to do that without visiting England on a regular basis? Ah...! Now, thereby hangs a lengthy tale...
Autorenporträt
Born in 1946 in the west Riding of Yorkshire's coal fields around Wakefield, he attended grammar school, where he enjoyed sport rather more than academic work. After three years at teacher training college in Leeds, he became a teacher in 1967. He spent a lot of time during his teaching career entertaining children of all ages, a large part of which was through telling stories, and encouraging them to escape into a world of imagination and wonder. Some of his most disturbed youngsters he found to be very talented poets, for example. He has always had a wicked sense of humour, which has blossomed only during the time he has spent with his wife, Denise. This sense of humour also allowed many youngsters to survive often difficult and brutalising home environments. Recently, he retired after forty years working in schools with young people who had significantly disrupted lives because of behaviour disorders and poor social adjustment, generally brought about through circumstances beyond their control. At the same time as moving from leafy lane suburban middle class school teaching in Leeds to residential schooling for emotional and behavioural disturbance in the early 1990s, changed family circumstance provided the spur to achieve ambitions. Supported by his wife, Denise, he achieved a Master's degree in his mid-forties and a PhD at the age of fifty-six, because he had always wanted to do so. Now enjoying glorious retirement, he spends as much time as life will allow writing, reading and travelling.