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040			_aRDA _c3228
041			_2E _aEnglish
082			_aETF RUIT
100			_avan de Ruit, John _9106363
245			_aSpud : learning to fly / _cJohn Van de Ruit
260			_aJohannesburg : _bPenguin Books, _c2014.
300			_a412 pages : _b illustrations ; _c20 cm
500			_aAs Spud Milton continues his diabolical stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life's most important lessons: when dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems. 'I'm practically a man in most areas', writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The year is 1992 and, as always in South Africa, radical change is in the air. The country may be on the bumpy road to an uncomfortable redemption, but Spud Milton is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. Instead, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is back to taunt him and that a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, along with the regular inmates and misfits he calls friends. Spud's world has never seemed less certain; he attempts to master Shakespeare, wrestles constantly with God and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.
650			_vSouth Africa Fiction _x Juvenile works _x Teenage boys _xSingle-sex schools _xBoarding schools Boarding _xPrivate schools _xEnglish language _xSchool students _9195779
942			_y395 _zKholofelo Moabelo
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