James Sapphire's Amazing Shrinking Machine

This is a story about an unlikely hero called James Sapphire who invents his own miniaturising machine to escape from the ferocious clutches of his teacher, Mr. Yikes, clutching his wooden birch during a time in England - before 1986 when corporal punishment was banned. James has, luckily avoided the end of the most ferocious master in the most notorious boarding school in all of England; that was...