Season of Secrets (19 page)

 

Sam wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. He also needs answers to the questions nobody will answer.

 

WINNER of the 2008 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize

“Powerful, inspiring and courageous... the début of the year”

Waterstone's

 

 

 

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If I could be absolutely anyone including made-up people, I would be
Pippi Longstocking, because she lives on her own with a horse and a pot of
gold and a monkey called Mr Nelson, and if anyone tries to make her do
something she doesn't want to do, like go and live with someone else, she
just picks them up and carries them down the garden path and dumps
them there.

And usually then they go away.

 

 

 

 

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Not exciting stories. More things like people winning cleanest toilet
competitions, or hospitals not spending money on what they're supposed to.

 

 

First published in the UK in 2010 by Marion Lloyd Books

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