'Young is a sharp and funny writer with a brilliant eye for moral fudging and verbal hypocrisy, and she has a splendid foil in Miss Mole' Sally Beauman WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony, of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places? Who would imagine that Miss Mole had pictured herself, at different times, as an explorer in strange lands, as a lady wrapped in luxury and delicate garments?' Miss Hannah Mole has for twenty years earned her living precariously as a governess or companion to a succession of difficult old women.Now, aged forty, a thin and shabby figure, she returns to Radstowe, the lovely city of her youth. Here she is, if not exactly welcomed, at least employed as housekeeper by the pompous Reverend Robert Corder, whose daughters are sorely in need of guidance. But even the dreariest situation can be transformed into an adventure by the indomitable Miss Mole. Blessed with imagination, wit and intelligence, she wins the affection of Ethel and her nervous sister Ruth. But her past holds a secret that, if brought to life, would jeopardise everything.

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Assistant Principal Jacob Farley had disappeared, but as Mt. Mole’s least-liked citizen, no one in town seemed to be in any hurry to find him or his captor. So thirteen-year-old Andrew J. Forrest takes on the investigation himself, discovering along the way many buried secrets about his hometown, its population, and most explosively, about the town’s namesake hill, Mt. Mole itself.

Suggests activities to be used at home to accompany the reading of Miss Nelson is missing by Harry Allard in the classroom.

When Fox tells Mole she must move out of her tunnel to make way for a new path, Mole finds an ingenious way to save her home.

L’indomita Hannah Mole per vent’anni si è guadagnata da vivere come governante di una sfilza di anziane complicate, cambiando spesso città e occupazione per una sua irrefrenabile tendenza a dar voce ai propri pensieri e a un’irriducibile sfiducia verso il prossimo. Ora, a quarant’anni, torna a Radstowe, cittadina della sua gioventù, dove viene assunta dal borioso reverendo Robert Corder, le cui figlie orfane di madre sono disperatamente alla ricerca di un modello femminile. Benedetta da una viva immaginazione, accompagnata da intelligenza e spirito, Miss Mole riuscirà a conquistare l’affetto di Ethel e della sua inquieta sorella, Ruth, ma un segreto del suo passato, se dovesse venire a galla, potrebbe mettere tutto a repentaglio...

The nursery rhyme presented as an early reader.