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Flour Babies

by Anne Fine · 1993

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Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign.

When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartwright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of thiscoming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of this
Themes
childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrensyoung adultmiddle grade
Length
short · 156 pages

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