01825nam a22002297b 4500003000500000005001700005008004100022020002300063040001400086041001500100082001400115100003100129245004700160260004400207300004200251500096500293650017501258942002701433942001401460999001901474952010201493322820250722115321.0250722b        sa ||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d  a9780143539520qpbk  aRDAc3228  2EaEnglish  aETF RUIT   avan de Ruit, John 9106363  aSpud : learning to fly /cJohn Van de Ruit  aJohannesburg : bPenguin Books, c2014.  a412 pages :b illustrations ; c20 cm  aAs 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.  vSouth Africa  Fiction x Juvenile worksx Teenage boys  xSingle-sex schoolsxBoarding schools  Boarding xPrivate schools  xEnglish language  xSchool students 9195779  y395zKholofelo Moabelo  2ddccBOOK  c752326d752325  00102ddc40708FaSTANLbSTANLcFICd2025-07-22g156.60oETF RUIT p3300410024719v156.60yBOOK