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My Teacher is a Diamond Thief!
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
"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
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
"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
- GenresFiction
157 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 17, 2025
About the author
Pamela Butchart
85 books116 followersAs a child, Pamela was lucky enough to grow up in a house full of pets and go to a primary school where lots of spooky and weird things happened (well, in her imagination at least). As a student, Pamela’s student jobs included: fishwife, teaching basketball in America, phlebotomist and Artist Liaison for a (really bad) Abba tribute band. Now, when she’s not writing or going out and about meeting readers, Pamela teaches philosophy to teenagers.
Her top selling stories include The Spy Who Loved School Dinners which won the Blue Peter Best Story Award and My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat which won The Children’s Book Award. Two of her books, Petunia Peri and There’s a Werewolf in My Tent, were shortlisted for the Lollies – the Laugh Out Loud Awards.
Pamela lives in Dundee with her baby boy and their two awesome cats, Bear & Carlos. If she wasn’t working as a writer and a teacher she’d like to open a luxury hotel for stray cats.
Her top selling stories include The Spy Who Loved School Dinners which won the Blue Peter Best Story Award and My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat which won The Children’s Book Award. Two of her books, Petunia Peri and There’s a Werewolf in My Tent, were shortlisted for the Lollies – the Laugh Out Loud Awards.
Pamela lives in Dundee with her baby boy and their two awesome cats, Bear & Carlos. If she wasn’t working as a writer and a teacher she’d like to open a luxury hotel for stray cats.
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March 7, 2026
Izzy and friends are just normal primary school children from Dundee, when they stumble into an international diamond crime mystery. Miss Ismail is their new teacher and she’s completely unable to follow normal teacher rules, like knowing how to use a printer or have your own coffee mug in the staff room. An accidental discovery of a haul of diamond rings in her desk lead Izzy and friends to conclude they are dealing with the Spanish mafia. Is Miss Ismail a teacher or an international diamond thief?
Another fabulous buddy-read for Grandma. Well put together, full of giggles and wonderfully illustrated, this is the fifteenth in the series. I loved it!
Another fabulous buddy-read for Grandma. Well put together, full of giggles and wonderfully illustrated, this is the fifteenth in the series. I loved it!
December 25, 2025
good quick easy read
February 7, 2026
A good book . I recomend it. I enjoyed it.Everyone can read it if they want!
February 10, 2026
It was really good and funny it was very confusing that miss Ismail was not a diamond thief and that she was a acrobatic and a fire eater
May 11, 2026
It is quite confusing at the end but I still like the suspense.
June 3, 2026
My year 2 class loved this book (as did I)! Really recommend it to get your class into longer books/short chapter books.
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