Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Heidi and Strathfield Disciplinary School
    Heidi and Strathfield Disciplinary School
    Heidi and Strathfield Disciplinary School
    Ebook78 pages1 hour

    Heidi and Strathfield Disciplinary School

    By Dr Mustafa Rostom

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Heidi is your average everyday suburban young teenager who shares a household with her mother and father, brothers Joshua and Glen, sister Jane, and Grandma Ellie. Heidi has commenced first year at Gilmore Secondary College with her best mates, Chantel and Emma. She has a tomboyish persona, outgoing personality, hyperactive attitude, and she perceives herself as a slick city power girl that rocks the world. The latest playground gossip is Strathfield Disciplinary School, located in the country area, with a view to rectify the problematic attitudes of troublesome teenagers. And the rumors about Strathfield are unpleasant ones and rather gruesome. Heidi ends up being caught cheating on a maths test, and her brother Josh, including his mates Matt and Brad, are caught smoking marijuana. This leads to Heidi and Joshua (including their friends) being sent to Strathfield DS by their outraged parents. The gang of six unique characters embarks on a mystery journey at Strathfield. They unravel an interesting history to the building, including its main secret, which only Heidi and the gang dare to tread on. During their four-week stay at Strathfield DS, Heidi and the gang stumble across a shocking hidden secret in Mr. Barkers science experimental rooms, which questions who really requires set disciplinethe Strathfield staff or its students?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateOct 26, 2012
    ISBN9781477241813
    Heidi and Strathfield Disciplinary School
    Author

    Dr Mustafa Rostom

    Dr. Mustafa Rostom is a qualified sociologist and freelance journalist. He is also a published novelist and children’s author. Dr. Rostom’s main titles include Four Arabian Tales and Black Scorpion. And this text, Heidi and Strathfield Disciplinary School, is his unique early-teenage novel for the new season.

    Related to Heidi and Strathfield Disciplinary School

    Related ebooks

    General Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      It Happened to Me…

      Apr 21, 2022

      It Happened to Me…
      8 min read

    • Article

      Love & Care

      Nov 26, 2019

      Love & Care
      6 min read

    • Article

      Quarantine Album

      Sep 8, 2020

      It all started with a very simple request: I asked my mom, when she had time, could she look through old photos to see if there were any of pint-size me decked out for Halloween—primo Instagram content for my show Scream, Queen! (a podcast about scar

      4 min read

    • Article

      Who Was My Mother?

      Sep 12, 2019

      Who Was My Mother?
      7 min read

    • Article

      Meet the MODERN GRANNIES

      Oct 6, 2020

      Meet the MODERN GRANNIES
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Girl On The Bed

      Oct 29, 2019

      The Girl On The Bed
      4 min read

    • Article

      How Dementia Saved Mum & Me

      Mar 31, 2021

      How Dementia Saved Mum & Me
      5 min read

    • Article

      Cricket League

      Jan 1, 2022

      It was an unusual birthday. Colorful banners blanketed the backyard. Kids chased each other through the grass. Adults talked. It all went downhill from there. My little sister was turning five. On her birthday cake, painted in frosting, was a fat, pi

      7 min read

    • Article

      What the Tornado Gave Us

      Jul 1, 2022

      In part 1, Rosica tells the story of how she and her family moved from Mexico to North Carolina to join her father, who works as a roofer and has been sending home money. Adjusting to a new school where they didn’t know the language was easier on her

      9 min read

    • Article

      Sandwich Generation Blues

      Nov 26, 2020

      Sandwich Generation Blues
      6 min read

    • Article

      ‘Toni, It’s Mum. There’s Been An Accident’

      Oct 13, 2021

      Edited extract from Lost & Found: My story of heartbreak and hope by Toni Street with Sophie Neville Like many teenage boys, Stephen loved sport and he loved hanging out with his mates. But he was happiest out on the farm with Dad. They were a tight

      11 min read

    • Article

      In The Doghouse

      Aug 25, 2022

      In The Doghouse
      3 min read

    • Article

      Little Gods

      Jan 8, 2020

      Little Gods
      8 min read

    • Article

      I Am the Ghost Here

      Jan 16, 2023

      I Am the Ghost Here
      12 min read

    • Article

      Princess Bari

      Apr 15, 2019

      Princess Bari
      6 min read

    • Article

      This Back Is a Familiar Back

      May 1, 2023

      This Back Is a Familiar Back
      8 min read

    • Article

      Chloe Fears THE WORST

      May 3, 2023

      Chloe Fears THE WORST
      3 min read

    • Article

      King Of The Castle

      Dec 28, 2023

      King Of The Castle
      5 min read

    • Article

      You’re The Dirty Rascal

      Apr 6, 2023

      You’re The Dirty Rascal
      5 min read

    • Article

      Granny

      Jan 17, 2024

      Granny
      7 min read

    • Article

      Daughters’ Bodies

      Dec 1, 2019

      WHEN I’M about to go away to college, my grandmother dies and my mother silently puts herself up for adoption. LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO ADOPT ME: Kind, lonely, beautiful woman in her 50s. Dead husband. No children. Cooks and cleans. 4’11 and 90 lbs. Gu

      20 min read

    • Article

      Nuclear

      Oct 7, 2021

      Nuclear
      7 min read

    • Article

      Shanda

      Jan 1, 2024

      Shanda
      13 min read

    • Article

      Living Nightmare

      Oct 1, 2019

      Living Nightmare
      4 min read

    • Article

      An unexpected LESSON

      Mar 9, 2021

      An unexpected LESSON
      6 min read

    • Article

      After Prison, I Became a Better Dad

      Jun 14, 2019

      “Even when a parent has been part of a child’s pain, that parent’s love can still be the antidote.”

      6 min read

    • Article

      Reading

      May 1, 2023

      Reading
      21 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Heidi and Strathfield Disciplinary School

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Heidi and Strathfield Disciplinary School - Dr Mustafa Rostom

      CHAPTER ONE

      Hi! There. My name is Heidi Spencer. I’m a slick, sick power girl. Well! My mother thinks I’m a tomboy. And dad hates it when I play soccer with the boys. My mother is Alice Spencer. She’s a freelance journalist, and spends most of her time traveling. She’s cool and we’re best mates. She is not as serious as dad, and we share each other’s secrets. Dad is a professor in metaphysics, and I never understand his work. Seriously! It’s so boring. Dad even carries some of his lab work back to our study. He has written a few books, and he is a well-known academic in his field.

      My eldest brother is Josh . . . That is Joshua Spencer. He’s a bit of a dork. We’re always at each other’s throat. Then there’s my younger sister, Jane. She’s also a bit of a dork. And then there’s our baby brother Glen—otherwise known as fat rat. Josh, Jane and I refer to Glen as fat rat, because he’s very tiny, and his nappy sticks out a mile. He turns one in exactly two weeks. Grandma Ellie spends most of her time looking after us. She’s mean and nasty. And trust me; you don’t want to get on her bad side. She always complains about us whenever dad comes home. And dad keeps threatening to send Joshua and me to disciplinary school.

      Strathfield Disciplinary School is the latest news flash which has got most parents threatening to send their children there. Everyone says it’s an old renovated building on the outskirts of our country areas, just nine miles from Westbreen—our home town. Joshua and I go to Gilmore Secondary College. This is my first year, and it’s the third year for Josh. But you should hear some of the stories about Strathfield in school. Freaky stuff! They say the teachers are very strict, harsh and cruel towards their pupils. And they get double the homework. Seriously! I would hate to attend disciplinary school, take crap from freaky teachers and come out a nerd. No way! That isn’t me.

      ‘Yes granny. I’m vacuuming.’ That was grandma Ellie, calling out from the lounge room. She’s been on my back for the past two hours about getting the carpets cleaned. I guess I was day dreaming, standing here, introducing myself, wasting electricity on the vacuum. My younger sister, Jane, the nerd, is playing teachers. She always reserves a corner in the house, and talks to herself. She pretends she’s a teacher. What a weirdo. Seriously! She needs to be locked up. But, as our neighbour, Mrs. Daley puts it, Jane is stimulating her imagination. And apparently that’s very normal for young people her age. Mrs. Daley is a child psychologist, and I guess that’s how she explains Jane’s strange behaviours. Yeah right! Whatever.

      ‘Oh! Josh. Come and take fat rat’, I scream, as I see baby Glen about to fall down the step which leads into the kitchen.

      ‘I’m going to borrow your ipad’ Josh says, carrying Glen in his arms.

      ‘What for? You’re always borrowing my ipad this week’, I yell.

      ‘I forgot mine at Brad’s’ He says.

      ‘What do you think this is Bush Week?’ I scream at Josh as he steps out of my bedroom, carrying my ipad.

      Josh ignores me as he heads back into his room. He spends most of his time chatting to friends on the net. Grandma Ellie sarcastically comments about Josh being a wombat coming out of its burrow, every time he exits his room to grab a drink form the fridge.

      ‘Put the volume down. You and your techno music. It’s terrible and horrible. There is not enough discipline for kids this generation’, grandma Ellie screams from the lounge. But she’ll need to scream a few times, until Josh decides to barely lower the music beat. And that is after she threatens Josh to tell dad about him.

      Suddenly, we could all hear dad’s diesel jeep coming down the drive way. Grandma Ellie quickly drops her knitting yarn, turns off the teley, and rushes into the kitchen, as she throws a bag of vegies into the microwave to defrost. Josh turns off his techno music, and opens his Maths book in dad’s den, and acts like the clever school boy. Oh! His act makes me want to vomit. Seriously! What a freak. Jane runs and sits first at the table, and begins nibbling on the bread roll. And manages to pull out a few pieces of lettuce from the salad bowl. Man! That’s all she seems to do, is to stuff her face with food. I place Glen in his walker and push him towards the kitchen. And take my time packing the vacuum into the cupboard, so that dad can witness me doing my house chores. Although grandma Ellie makes it a daily ritual to inform dad, that I to take ages to start a house chore, and quickly to finish it.

      ‘Heidi has to be told a hundred times to do things around the house. Vacuuming and wiping the floors is completed in less than two minutes. And every time I tell her to do something, Heidi is either munching on a piece of fruit or she’s visiting the little room’, grandma Ellie would tell dad. My dad would take a relaxed attitude on the matter, and would inform grandma Ellie that I was still young, and that I had school work to attend to. And Grandma Ellie would always go on about her cleaning the whole house, sparkling clean, for her mother at my age. She felt that parents were too lenient towards their children in this modern age. Seriously! Grandma Ellie talks about the Old Stone Age, when things were way different than today.

      I hated whenever my mother was assigned to long work trips. Three weeks away from home, seemed like three years to me and my brothers and sister. We all loved our mother very much,

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1