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'Erica Yurken, certain of her glittering career on the stage and her place in the world, is upstaged and forced to come to grips with her own reality when Alison Ashley arrives at the school. A comedy about the trials and tribulations of schoolyard rivalries, embarrassing family situations and the awkwardness of teenage years.'
Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 4/12/2013)
Teaching notes from Australian Children’s Television Foundation.
Hating Alison Ashley
Ringwood
:
Puffin
,
1984
Z262253
1984
single work
novel
young adult
(taught in 3 units)
Classmates Erica Yurgen and Alison Ashley vie with each other to become the undisputed star of their class.
Going to school is one of the few life experiences almost everyone shares. From the time children began to be educated in small groups in Britain, there were school stories in popular culture, beginning with what many consider the first novel for children, Sarah Fielding’s The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy (1749). (Introduction)
Going to school is one of the few life experiences almost everyone shares. From the time children began to be educated in small groups in Britain, there were school stories in popular culture, beginning with what many consider the first novel for children, Sarah Fielding’s The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy (1749). (Introduction)
