A delightful and moving story of boyhood adventures, friendships and anxieties, set in a 1930s boarding school.

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This is going to be a real Christmas story. In fact I meant to write it a couple of years ago, and then of course I meant to write it last year. But you know how it is; something was always getting in the way. Until my mother said, only the other day, ‘If you don’t start writing this moment, you won’t get anything for Christmas!’

Martin's school is no ordinary school. There are snowball fights, kidnappings, cakes, a parachute jump, a mysterious man called 'No-Smoking' who lives in a railway carriage and a play about a flying classroom.


As the Christmas holidays draw near, Martin and his friends - nervous Uli, cynical Sebastian, Johnny, who was rescued by a sea captain, and Matthias, who is always hungry (particularly after a meal) - are preparing for the end-of-term festivities. But there are surprises, sadness and trouble on the way - and a secret that changes everything.


The Flying Classroom is a magical, thrilling and bittersweet story about friendship, fun and being brave when you are at your most scared. (It also features a calf called Eduard, but you will have to read the book in order to find out why.)