The Terrifying Teacher - Couverture souple

Horrible Histories meets Wimpy Kid in these funny stories mismatching characters with careers. The stories are colour chapter books perfect for the independent reader.

Mr Bloodaxe is not like any other teacher at school, he is just a little bit scary, or possibly even terrifying! He has a striking resemblance to a famous Viking of the same name and his lessons are far from comfortable...

Race Further with Reading is a series designed to build reading confidence with illustrated stories in manageable bite-size chapters, which encourage a sense of achivement at completing each one. They follow on a level from the Race Ahead with Reading series with stories of 2,000 words. The books are perfect for children aged 6-8 or who read book band 11.

Claire has worked as a teacher in the UK, USA and Colombia. She spent many years in Yorkshire, where she brought up her son, and now lives just outside London with her husband. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University.
Claire believes passionately in the potential of all young people. Her first novel Cordelia Codd: Not Just the Blues explores how by living bravely in the face of everyday disasters we develop the power to shape our future. It was published by Orchard in June 2012. Orchard published a third Cordelia Codd title in 2015 and The Terrifying Teacher is her first story for Franklin Watts.