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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to 44 Scotland Street, home to some of Edinburgh's most colorful characters. There's Pat, a twenty-year-old who has recently moved into a flat with Bruce, an athletic young man with a keen awareness of his own appearance. Their neighbor, Domenica, is an eccentric and insightful widow. In the flat below are Irene and her appealing son Bertie, who is the victim of his mother's desire for him to learn the saxophone and Italian-all at the tender...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First Anchor books edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
vi, 345 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The sequel to 44 Scotland Street continues to follow the residents of the converted Edinburgh townhouse, as young Bertie prepares for kindergarten, former surveyor Bruce contemplates a new career, and Pat embarks on a new life at the university.
Author
Series
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Physical Desc
357 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy-just ask his mother. This just in from Edinburgh: the complicated lives of the denizens of 44 Scotland Street are becoming no simpler. Domenica Macdonald has left for the Malacca Straits to conduct a perilous anthropological study of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 343 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The World According to Bertie is the fourth in the series and revolves around the many colorful characters that come and go at No. 44 Scotland Street. McCall Smith handles the characters with his customary charm and deftness-the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother, and, most importantly in this novel, the beleaguered Italian-speaking prodigy, Bertie. This is classic McCall Smith-clever, witty and entertaining- and beautifully illustrated....
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 7
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Anchor Books edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow. Meanwhile, Matthew, her boss at the art gallery, attracts the attention of the police after a misunderstanding at the local bookstore. Whether caused by small...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 13
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose; it is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh's favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting. For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson - he of the clove-scented hair gel - it may finally be time to settle down, and surely it can only be a question of picking the lucky winner from the hordes of his admirers. The Duke of Johannesburg is...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 14
Publisher
Anchor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
297 p.
Language
English
Description
The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will have to bring his best self to navigate the complexities of the pas de deux. While the tale takes some surprising turns, the improbable adventures of this quirky cast of Scots will affirm the heart and joy in Edinburgh's New Town.
From the hugely popular 44 Scotland...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 15
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This new addition to the 44 Scotland Street series finds its residents up their usual amusing antics, including young Bertie Pollock, whose starry-eyed explorations of Edinburgh's New Town are a reminder that life is an adventure and there is joy wherever you choose to look"--
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 16
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As everyone prepares for Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding, the peace and tranquility of 44 Scotland Street is disrupted by the arrival of domineering Irene, while Bruce, after being struck by lightning, prepares to leave his creature comforts for the monastic simplicity of Pluscarden Abbey, much to his house sitter's delight.