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''The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler'' is a children's day-school adventure novel by Gene Kemp, first published by Faber in 1977 with illustrations by Carolyn Dinan. Set at Cricklepit Combined School in southern England, a fictional primary school for ages 4 to 12, it inaugurated the series of seven books (1977 to 2002) that is sometimes called the Cricklepit Combined School series.〔"Reading Series Fiction: From Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp. By Victor Watson. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2000. Reviewed by David Rudd." ''Children's Literature Association Quarterly'' 26:3 (Fall 2001), pp. 154–155. (Excerpt at jhu.edu ). Retrieved 2012-09-18.〕〔("Series: Cricklepit School" ). Library Thing. Retrieved 2012-09-18.〕 According to a later publisher, "Kemp is widely acclaimed for giving the school story a new lease of life" with ''The Turbulent Term'' and its Cricklepit sequels.〔 Kemp won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject,〔 and one of the "Other Awards" from Children's Rights Workshop.〔("Gene Kemp" ). Authors. PenguinBooks. Retrieved 2012-09-18.〕〔 The author adapted the novel as a play, published under the same title by Oxford in 2003 (Oxford Playscripts, ISBN 019831499X), "tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English".〔("The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler" (New Oxford Playscripts)" ). Bookseller description. Amazon. Retrieved 2012-09-18.〕 A television adaptation was made by Yorkshire Television and broadcast on ITV in 1988 as part of ''The Book Tower''.〔(The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler ). BFI Film & TV Database. Retrieved 2012-11-15〕 ==Plot summary== The book tells the story of its main characters' final term at Cricklepit Combined School. It is principally narrated by 'Tyke' Tiler, a bold and athletic twelve-year-old with the reputation of being a troublemaker. Tyke's best friend Danny Price has a speech defect, which means Tyke often has to translate for him. Danny has a helpless air which leads him to depend on his often exasperated friend. When Tyke overhears some teachers discussing the possibility of Danny going to a special school next year, the only option seems to be to help Danny to cheat in the assessment test – a plan which naturally backfires. When Tyke is off sick, Danny is accused of stealing a gold watch and runs away. It is up to Tyke to persuade the headmaster that Martin and Kevin are the guilty ones, and to find Danny. On the last day of school, Tyke decides to emulate Thomas Tiler, a relative, in climbing up the outside of the school and ringing the school bell, which has been silent for thirty years. When this ends in disaster the headmaster says: "That child has always appeared to me to be on the brink of wrecking this school, and as far as I can see, has, at last, succeeded." Up to the end of the penultimate chapter the narrative is written without revealing the protagonist's gender, and the daring nature of Tyke's exploits often leads readers to assume Tyke is a boy. The story ends with the revelation that Tyke is a girl, her full name being Theodora Tiler. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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