Author(s): Michelle Magorian

Chapter Books

From the award-winning author of "Goodnight Mister Tom" comes the classic "A Spoonful of Jam", packaged with a beautiful, fresh new cover.The war is over but Elsie is still fighting her own battles. She's bullied because she's the only scholarship pupil at the grammar school, and she has an awkward relationship with her father as he struggles to assume a normal life after fighting in the war.But when she begins working at the local theatre, Elsie discovers she can escape..."A Spoonful of Jam" is the second of The Hollis Family books, following "Cuckoo in the Nest".