01711nam a22002177b 4500 3228 20250722115321.0 250722b sa ||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d 9780143539520 pbk RDA 3228 E English ETF RUIT van de Ruit, John 106363 Spud : learning to fly / John Van de Ruit Johannesburg : Penguin Books, 2014. 412 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm As 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. South Africa Fiction Juvenile works Teenage boys Single-sex schools Boarding schools Boarding Private schools English language School students 195779 395 Kholofelo Moabelo ddc BOOK 752326 752325 0 0 ddc 0 0 F STANL STANL FIC 2025-07-22 156.60 ETF RUIT 3300410024719 156.60 BOOK