num_pages: 192
description: After her mother died while her father was away at sea twelve-year-old Carlotta Budd enjoyed living with her gipsy grandmother in a shack on Exmoor. No one told her what she ought or ought not to do and outside school hours she was allowed to run wild. But one day old Mrs Budd fell ill and had to go to hospital so Carlotta was taken to a children's home  very much against her will.The arrival in Springfield Home of the stormy and rebellious gipsy girl caused chaos among the inhabitants and her escapades in turn bewildered and infuriated Mr and Mrs Banter the elderly and unimaginative couple in charge of the children. Woven in with Carlotta's adventures are those of Frankie Prust who was as silent as Carlotta was noisy and who longed for the peace and quiet of a settled life with a proper family of his own.The story of how Carlotta and Frankie both found the kind of home they wanted makes this a highly amusing and moving book.
language: English
title: Springfield Home
publisher: The Bodley Head