{"id":1585,"date":"2026-03-10T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:24:05","slug":"on-the-wall-anne-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/on-the-wall-anne-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"ON THE WALL \/ Anne Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can you find happiness anywhere? Anywhere at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid the chaos of breaktime, Finley Tandy sits peacefully on the wall. Mr Goodhew, watching from the staffroom, is in awe of the boy&#8217;s gift for stillness, and his seemingly cast-iron happiness. But tranquility may be catching. Because gradually everyone in the school comes to appreciate what Finley&#8217;s long silences can offer. Even Juliet finds answers to her crushing worries when she&#8217;s close to Finley, up on the wall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A warm and witty novel, with a lot to say about the value of silence and self-acceptance, this new young teen story from Anne Fine is the perfect &#8216;transition read&#8217; for those approaching the new challenges and joys of the first year of secondary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ecolint.mlasolutions.com\/m5\/catalog\/?installation=CHASEC&amp;urlcommand=search&amp;query1=0000074335&amp;MARCATTRIBUTE1=001&amp;MARCATTRIBUTE2=&amp;MARCATTRIBUTE3=&amp;op1=0000000002&amp;lexile=&amp;view=shareitem&amp;viewposition=0000074335&amp;databases=0000000109\">On the wall<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, F FIN, 230 pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you find happiness anywhere? Anywhere at all? Amid the chaos of breaktime, Finley Tandy&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/on-the-wall-anne-fine\/\" class=\"more-link btn btn-link\">Read More&hellip; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue reading ON THE WALL \/ Anne Fine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4],"tags":[125,1284,143,31,1180,1286,1285],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-juvenile-fiction","category-slider","tag-fiction","tag-happiness","tag-juvenile-works","tag-schools","tag-silence","tag-teachers","tag-walls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}