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Name: Laura & Sam
Message:Hi Cora
We love Wolf best of all. Is the real Wolf like him? I mean your dog in the picture of the back of the book (Laura).
I love his pink tonge (Sam)
Dated:Mon Nov 28 16:12:34 2005  

Name: Emer
Message:Hi Cora
Do you rmember coming to our school St Endas well I've read Wolf int he Midnight forist and I love it. Its the best book I have read. My friends Laura and Sam agree with me.
Dated:Mon Nov 28 16:08:59 2005  

Name: Cora Harrison
Message:Patricia: I don't know you and I don't know the Principal of your school so I am not sure what to advise. However, I will do my best (as a former principal, teacher and teenage rebel!) I would feel rather uneasy rather uneasy about advising you to complain to the Principal. It might get you labelled as a rebel. I think you should just say: 'no thanks' politely to the request to get involved in a Charity Show. Just give some excuse like that you are busy or something - games, homework, writing a novel!

Many thanks for the 'teen-speak' It's really useful and interesting (I notice that I often say: 'really'!). I've put it on to my extract.
Dated:Sun Nov 27 19:19:39 2005  

Name: Patricia
Message:Cora, What do you think of that teacher who wants you to do a charity event that no one will support, a complete waste of time and no one wants to sing (including me) and I'm the only one that would say it to her. She also gets hysterical. Do you think I should give out to her or complain to the princpal which people have alreagy done. Shes my english teacher and she can't teach for her life.
Dated:Sun Nov 27 12:09:58 2005  

Name: Patricia
Message:Cora, I know that I was one of the oldest in the class and I was always told by teachers that I was very mature and responable and I would make it great in secondary last year. But now I'm been told by a teacher that I have now that I'm very un mature and that I should start listening to her and not doing my own thing which I think is a whole lot of rubbish and I should be able to choose of what I want to do.
Dated:Sun Nov 27 12:05:51 2005  

Name: Cora Harrison
Message:I mean you were probably too grown up - you always struck me as more like someone from secondary than from primary school.
Dated:Sat Nov 26 20:52:36 2005  

Name: Patricia
Message:Hi Cora, What do you mean mentally too old???
Dated:Sat Nov 26 19:02:20 2005  

Name: Cora Harrison
Message:Stephanie: The publisher who did the Wolf stories (Merlin) has decided to give up children's books. I have managed to find another publisher to do the Drumshee books (Mentor Books) but I haven't found anyone to do the next two Wolf books. I'm glad you like them because they are great favourites of mine.
Dated:Fri Nov 25 21:12:16 2005  

Name: stephanie
Message:cora are u writing a new book about your dog wolf your stories about wolf are brillent please write more
Dated:Fri Nov 25 19:34:47 2005  

Name: Cora Harrison
Message:Alannah; I normally, these days, plan about ten chapters. Whe I started writing first I used to plan about fifteen chapters, but now I find that as I write about things occur to me. I suppose, now, I am more confident of my own ability to come up with ideas.

Patricia: That would be great. I look forward to hearing from you on Sunday.
I think that you were probably mentally too old for primary school. In England, where I taught, kids went to secondary when they were eleven (like Class Five here). I actually think that 99.5% of them were ready to go to secondary school, but I have never managed to convince Irish teachers of this!
Dated:Fri Nov 25 18:53:39 2005  

Name: Patricia
Message:I'll try to do it on Sunday. I was in 6xt class and when I left no one cried for us neither did we thought. But when I was in 2nd to 5ft they all cried. I think its stuipt to cry. I was excited to go to secondary.
Dated:Fri Nov 25 18:25:17 2005  

Name: Alannah Thornburgh
Message:Cora: The extract of Chapter 5 sounds really good. I can't wait until it comes out. Did you plan what was going to happen before you wrote it or did you just write it as you went along?
Dated:Fri Nov 25 15:13:38 2005  

Name: Edwina
Message:Cora,
Sorry I haven't been on the computer for a while. the new Harry Potter book is even better than the others. Yes, me and Alannah are in the same class. How are you?
Dated:Thu Nov 24 21:57:33 2005  

Name: Cora Harrison
Message:Edel: Which of my new books do you mean: 'Doomed to Die' or 'A Life for a Life'?

Who was in the sixth class?
Dated:Thu Nov 24 21:35:58 2005  

Name: EDEL ODWER
Message:HI Cora.Edel here i was just asking about your new book.we were very sad when the sixet class left.
Dated:Thu Nov 24 20:57:45 2005  

Name: Cora Harrison
Message:Many thanks, Patricia, I'm very relieved that you think it sounds OK. I know that you have a very good ear for the way kids of your age talk so perhaps you could spare the time to write down a few typical remarks from boys and girls. That would really help me also - I will use the things that you and Ursula have sent.

Dated:Thu Nov 24 20:47:34 2005  

Name: Patricia
Message:Hi Cora, I put in a thing for your book. I hope it will help and it is all true.
Dated:Thu Nov 24 18:21:44 2005  

Name: Patricia
Message:Alannah: Yes I'm in 1st year and i love it. It's way better than primary. No i haven't tried a publisher but my stories are way to short for it to be published.
Dated:Thu Nov 24 18:11:09 2005  

Name: Cora Harrison
Message:Thanks, Ursula, that's brilliant. I put it on the end of my extract in the Story Club so that others can see it. I'll add in other ideas when they come in. I like the throwing paper bit and the humming. Of course I have only taught in Primary Schools - and in England they leave primary at eleven so I wouldn't know about too much bad behaviour.
It's a good idea to send it by the story club as the message board will only take a message of about 120 words.
Dated:Thu Nov 24 16:33:32 2005  

Name: Ursula
Message:Hi cora just sent you some ideas through the story club as it wouldn't fit here!
Hope it helps
Ursula
Dated:Thu Nov 24 16:04:38 2005  

Name: Cora Harrison
Message:I've just put an extract from Chapter Five on to the Story Board. I need help in developing and extending the scene. Miss Clancy is a newly qualified teacher and she finds the first class in secondary just too hard to handle.
I would welcome any criticism if the language and expressions don't sound right to your ear. All help very gratefully received!
Dated:Thu Nov 24 15:25:06 2005  

Name: Alannah Thornburgh
Message:Patricia: I'm in 5th Class. Are you in 1st Year? Have you ever tried to send a book to a publisher yourself?
Dated:Thu Nov 24 15:19:03 2005  

Name: Patricia
Message:If you want to say something you hate try
I can't stand or just say what you hate about the thing like Geography is so boring. But I would use I can't stand that girl personally.
Dated:Wed Nov 23 18:33:21 2005  

Name: Patricia
Message:Cora:I could help you with the young geoghapy teacher as I had a english student teacher. What really would you want and I will try to find some time. The idea about writing about I feel in diary form is a good idea. I will be putting down my own personal feelings in it and i waill carry it on until the year ends maybe. I rather writing down my feelings on paper.
Alannah: Your stories are probably great and I hope you get an offer. Just think of J.K Rowling she tried 3 publishers before she got an offer on Harry Potter and how big is that like? Shes a multi millionare. I hope you really like the story it might give you an idea on secondary school. What class are you in?
Dated:Wed Nov 23 18:29:50 2005  

Name: Cora Harrison
Message:Alannah: I wish you the very best of luck. I know what it is like hanging around for publishers. You need a lot of stamina, and a lot of luck. I suppose, though, that nothing equals the excitment of seeing your first book published and for sale in shops.

Patricia: I wonder could you help me. I need something - quite short in chapter five of 'Twice as Gorgeous', something where the class are teasing a young and inexperienced geography teacher. I'm not sure if that every happens in your school!
Also, what word would you use if you wanted to say that you hate something?
Dated:Wed Nov 23 18:13:42 2005  

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