Canned is a wonderful book about a boy named Fergal Bamfield who lives in England and collects cans. Yes, unlabeled, silver cans from the bargain basket at his local supermarket. His collection started with one can and ended up with fifty cans! (His mother got very annoyed with his hobby more tha...
A decent novel for younger teenagers and children. The story concerns Fergal, a young boy with a strange hobby of collecting tins. That is, tins with no labels. The mystery of each tin and what they might contain give him thrills, and his mother pains, but when he discovers a human finger in one ...
I had the usual stuff in the bag: chocolate bars, chips, cereal bars, bottles of juice, newspaper, spare toothbrush, toothpaste, that kind of thing—all the objects, necessary and unnecessary, that you carry to the hospital and put in the bedside cabinet, just in case and because you never know. &...
She poured out a cupful, left it balanced on the rail, and he swooped down on the fin, took the water, drank it and left the empty cup where he had found it. He nodded, but he didn’t thank her, and he kept the crossbow pointed at her. The sky-fin didn’t get any water. They never drink. They seem ...
i love tins it is a great book with a eiree background
—lauren