She had never directly crossed her aunt’s boyfriend Pete before, and her former certainty that he wouldn’t notice a missing pony out of so many seemed like wild optimism in the bright light of day. The sparrows were singing cheerily outside her window as if her worry was no concern of theirs. Eve...
Snip tried everything he could think of to cheer him up, and often talked about the Rat Hall job which he was sure would be given to Mr Trundle in the end, because how could three girls manage a job like that alone? But this seemed, for some reason, to make Charlie even more depressed. He had sta...
She puts her arm round me as we get off the school bus. ‘Maybe the rescue will find good homes for them,’ she says. I stare at her. ‘What’s that got to do with it? It’s me that wants them. Queenie’s my friend!’ ‘I know,’ says Jan, ‘are you sure your dad means to get rid of them?’ ‘Certain,’ I rep...