title: Tales from a Village School (The Fairacre Series #1)
author:  Miss Read 
description: Our thirty-ninth book by Miss Read is a delightful collection of forty stories, first published forty years ago in England and collected here for the first time in book form. Based on Miss Read's (the real-life Dora Saint) own lifelong involvement with country schools, these stories chronicle the life of a village schoolteacher in the Berkshires. Whether describing the zestful decking of the church for the Harvest Festival or the wicked wisdom of a child confessing to breaking a skylight window, Miss Read captures the scenes of village school life and of childhood itself with humorous understanding of human foibles and a love of nature that have long endeared her to readers. Fresh and beautifully written, these stories led to the writing of Miss Read's popular novels set in the villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green. This is vintage Miss Read, sure to delight her many fans. Tales from a Village School includes a new foreword by the author and line drawings by Kate Dicker.
zlib_text: _Village School_  
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  Fairacre [1]  
  Miss Read  
  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1976)  
  Rating: | ★★★★☆  
  Tags: | Fiction, Country Life, Fairacre (England : Imaginary Place), Country
  Life - England, Fairacre (England: Imaginary Place)  
  Fictionttt Country Lifettt Fairacre (England : Imaginary Place)ttt Country
  Life - Englandttt Fairacre (England: Imaginary Place)ttt  
    
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  **Review**
  
  "If you've ever enjoyed a visit to Mitford, you'll relish a visit to
  Fairacre." -- Jan Karon
  
  **Product Description**
  
  The first novel in the beloved Fairacre series, VILLAGE SCHOOL introduces the
  remarkable schoolmistress Miss Read and her lovable group of children, who,
  with a mixture of skinned knees and smiles, are just as likely to lose
  themselves as their mittens. This is the English village of Fairacre: a
  handful of thatch-roofed cottages, a church, the school, the promise of fair
  weather, friendly faces, and good cheer -- at least most of the time. Here
  everyone knows everyone else's bu