Flour Babies by Anne Fine, won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread ChildrenA$272â,$273â,,$274s Book Award in 1992. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr CartwrightA$275â,$276â,,$277s class donA$278â,$279â,,$280t get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times. Funny and poignant, Flour Babies is a brilliant depiction of secondary school life.
