My Teacher is a Diamond Thief! E-Book

Pamela Butchart

• Herausgeber: Nosy Crow Ltd
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 78

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

The fifteenth in a smash hit series of hilarious tales about primary school life from best-selling, award-winning creators! Packed with excellent black and white illustrations, this is the perfect longer read for newly confident readers. Nothing is quite as it seems for Izzy and her friends, and the drama is always off the scale! When Izzy and friends get a new teacher, they are immediately suspicious. Why does she have two computers set up on her desk? Why does she speak Spanish when they're supposed to be doing maths? Why does she have a pink wig and sunglasses in her car? And WHY DOES SHE HAVE A DRAWER FULL OF DIAMONDS? Because she's an international jewel thief, of course, and MUST BE STOPPED! Have you read these brilliantly funny Izzy and friends adventures? - Baby Aliens Got My Teacher - My Headteacher Is a Vampire Rat – Children's Book Award Winner 2016 - The Spy Who Loved School Dinners – Blue Peter Award Winner 2015 - Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies - To Wee Or Not To Wee! - There's a Yeti in the Playground - The Phantom Lollipop Man - Icarus Was Ridiculous Praise for Izzy and friends: "Butchart has enviable comic timing and a shrewd understanding of how primary-aged children think, speak and speculate. Punchy short chapters, genuinely laugh-out-loud humour and Flintham's zany pictures make the series an absolute must." – The Bookseller "Good jokes and lots of fun, and especially good for reluctant readers." – Sunday Times

Leseprobe

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1. An International Crime Plot

When we got a new teacher we knew things were going to be a bit DIFFERENT.

But we had

that we were going to get pulled into an INTERNATIONAL CRIME PLOT. 2

Zach said that he should have tried harder to contact INTERPOL (the international police) as soon as Miss Ismail got her OWN NAME WRONG.

But, like Jodi says, the thing about CRIMINALS is that they are very good at DISGUISING THEMSELVES as normal people. She calls this

And it wasn’t until we found the BIGGEST DIAMOND IN THE WORLD in a packet of 3cheese and onion crisps that we KNEW.

An

was working at OUR school!

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2. Job Share

When our teacher came back from having her baby, she told us that she was only going to be teaching us for HALF of the week because she was doing a JOB SHARE.

We all looked at each other because we didn’t know what that meant. 5

So that’s when Miss Jones said that she would be our teacher on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesday mornings and that a new teacher (called Miss Ismail) would be our teacher for the rest of the week.

On Monday and Tuesday things were fine. But then on Wednesday when we came back to class after lunch EVERYTHING CHANGED.

Miss Ismail was sitting in Miss Jones’s seat but she was sitting on the WRONG SIDE of the desk.

And all the blinds were SHUT (Miss Jones usually had them open). 6

Miss Ismail snapped her laptop shut when she saw us and stood up quickly.

So we all sat down in silence and waited to see what was going to happen next.

That’s when Miss Ismail said, “Hello, everyone. I’m your new teacher, Miss Lardon.” 7

We  all STARED at each other because Miss Jones had said our new teacher was called Miss Ismail!

“I mean, NO! I’m Miss Ismail!” she said.

Then she did a bit of a NERVOUS LAUGH and said, “Let’s get on with the lesson, shall we?” 8

Then she handed us all WORKSHEETS and told us to work quietly in PAIRS.

Then she sat back down and opened her laptop again and started typing

“That was weird,” said Jodi.

I nodded because it WAS weird.

Miss Ismail had got her OWN NAME WRONG.

That’s when Zach said that she was obviously just NERVOUS because she was new. 9

Then Jodi said that usually new teachers introduce themselves a bit, like the time Miss Jones was sick for a week and we got a SUPPLY TEACHER and he spent AGES telling us all about his FOUR CATS.

But we didn’t know a THING about Miss Ismail!

And we definitely didn’t know if she had any pets!

Zach pointed at the worksheet and said, “What’s bugleweed?!”

That’s when we all looked at our worksheets and saw that it was about PLANTS. 10

“Why are we learning about plants all of a sudden?” asked Jodi.

I shrugged because I had NO IDEA why Miss Ismail had given us a worksheet about plants.

I thought it was probably the most

worksheet I had ever seen in my LIFE.

But Maisie was

because she LOVES plants. 11

That’s when Jodi pointed to something printed in small writing at the very bottom of the worksheet and said, “Look. That’s today’s date. And look at the time!”

I looked and saw that the time said “1.01 p.m.”

I didn’t really know why that was important but it obviously WAS because Jodi was STARING at us with WIDE EYES. 12

That’s when Jodi said, “Miss Ismail printed this out AFTER the bell went. And it’s got nothing to do with ANYTHING we’ve been learning in class and she hasn’t even

it to us!”

Then Zach said, “It says

on the back.” 13

Jodi GASPED and turned her worksheet over and looked at the back.

“It’s like she just gave us the first thing she could find online to keep us busy! She’s not even TEACHING us properly!”

I looked over at Miss Ismail to see if she had heard any of what Jodi was shouting about because Jodi gets a bit

when she’s annoyed.

But Miss Ismail was still FURIOUSLY typing away at her laptop. 14

I looked around the class and saw that most people were just chatting and that no one looked like they were doing the PLANT WORKSHEET and that Gary Petrie was actually taking a NAP in the story corner.

15I had NO IDEA what Miss Ismail was doing on her laptop. But whatever it was, she was so OBSESSED with it that she wasn’t even paying attention to the class!

That’s when Jodi SLAMMED the worksheet down on the table and said that she wasn’t doing it because she WASN’T EVEN IN YEAR SIX.

Then she crossed her arms to show us that she meant it.

I looked at Zach but he just shrugged.

Then I looked at Maisie to see what she thought, but she had almost finished hers.

So that’s when I said I was going to put my 16hand up and ask if Miss Ismail had ACCIDENTALLY given us the boring plant worksheet. And I DID.

I kept my hand up for AGES.

Miss Ismail didn’t come over.

So I said, “Miss?”

But she didn’t even LOOK.

She just kept STARING at her laptop.

That’s when Jodi GOT UP and

17We  all GASPED because Jodi can be a bit DRAMATIC.

Like the time she got up and stood on her CHAIR in the middle of a SCHOOL ASSEMBLY and did a

because she didn’t like what the head teacher was saying about us not going on a school trip because of BUDGET CUTS.

After about five minutes Jodi came back and sat down like NOTHING had happened. 18

That’s when Zach said, “Where did you GO?!”

And Jodi said, “The toilet. Did Miss Ismail notice?”

We all shook our heads.

Jodi stared at us and said, “And that’s not NORMAL, is it?”

So we all shook our heads again because it WASN’T normal for teachers to

their class and let pupils NAP in the story 19corner and walk out of class without even ASKING for a TOILET PASS!

That’s when Jodi NARROWED HER EYES and STARED at Miss Ismail and said, “Something WEIRD is going on. We need to keep an EYE on Miss Ismail.”

And she was RIGHT.

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3. I Don’t Want to Look at Her Creepy Glowing Face!

The next day, Miss Ismail had TWO laptops.

We all STARED as her head snapped from one screen to the other.

That’s when Maisie started SHAKING and said, “Her face is GLOWING.”

And it WAS. Because not only were the 21BLINDS shut, but Miss Ismail had closed the CURTAINS now too!

Maisie said she didn’t like it and asked to switch seats with me so she didn’t have to look at Miss Ismail’s CREEPY GLOWING FACE.

22Usually we wouldn’t be ALLOWED to switch seats but I knew that Miss Ismail probably wouldn’t even notice, so I switched.

And she DIDN’T notice.

Then after break we all went to PE for our JUDO LESSON and when we came out of the changing room we saw that Miss Ismail had changed into HER gym kit too!

“That’s different!” said Zach.

And he was RIGHT because we have

seen Miss Jones or any of the other teachers in their PE kit and Miss Jones usually just sits 23at the side with her TEACHER CLOTHES on and marks our HOMEWORK.

We all watched as Miss Ismail started copying EVERYTHING the judo instructor did.

Then when she did a HIGH KICK we all GASPED.

And Zach said “WHOA!”

Because Miss Ismail could kick HIGHER than the actual judo instructor! 24

Then when the instructor asked us who would like to volunteer to do a DEMONSTRATION, Miss Ismail actually PUSHED in front of me and said,

Me and Jodi STARED at each other and the instructor looked a bit surprised too because he had obviously meant a PUPIL volunteer, not a TEACHER.

And that’s when Miss Ismail GRABBED the instructor and FLOORED HIM in ONE MOVE.

25Everyone GASPED, and Jodi GRIPPED my arm because Miss Ismail was SERIOUSLY strong and FAST.

We watched as Miss Ismail helped the instructor to his feet.

Then she grinned and looked at us all and said, “Who’s next?!”

And that’s when Maisie fainted.

After PE, Miss Ismail took us to the library for READING FOR FUN time.

We all LOVED getting to choose our own books and I couldn’t WAIT to take mine 26back to the classroom and read until lunchtime!

But then when we were leaving, Mr Graves (the head teacher) appeared and asked Miss Ismail if she could please give him a copy of her

That’s when Miss Ismail went a bit WEIRD and said that she would bring it from home the next day.

But then Mr Graves pointed to the 27PRINTER and said, “That’s OK