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This paper focuses on the formalistic features of Yorkshire school novels, particularly the Dales series by Gervase Phinn, and investigates how and why various genres in education and entertainment are incorporated into his school saga. Analysis of its narrative styles and plot patterns shows that this intrinsically non-fictional story is deliberately arranged with the frameworks of moral tales, travel writing, and TV shows. This mixture of formats, or crossover of genres, produces the effect of switching from one to another of the three spheres: a classroom/church, the open air, and the home; the reader is invited to heaven/hell, utopia, and one’s living room, and feels pious, excited, and relaxed alternatively. The variety of joy which the reader is led to as in a varied school timetable arouses in him/her the sentiments and memories of a schoolboy/schoolgirl. Not as a looker-on but more as a participant, the reader is caught and absorbed in Phinn’s fiction and experiences the incidents as his/her own. This sense of commitment and sympathy is not only for fun in entertainment but also for understanding and cooperation in education needed in the real world. Phinn’s tactics, both aesthetic and practical (or even political), well serve him―an author and educator in equal measure.