The Boy At The Top Of The Mountain - Plot & Excerpts
The beds were hard and the sheets were thin. When the food was plentiful it was usually tasteless, though when it was scarce it was usually good. Pierrot did his best to make friends, although it wasn’t easy when the other children knew each other so well and were wary of allowing newcomers into their groups. There were a few who liked reading, but they wouldn’t let Pierrot join their discussions because he hadn’t read the same books as they had. There were others who had spent months creating a miniature village from wood they’d gathered in the nearby forest, but they shook their heads and said that since Pierrot didn’t know the difference between a bevel and a block plane, they couldn’t allow him to ruin something they’d worked so hard on. A group of boys who played soccer in the grounds every afternoon, naming themselves after their favourite players in the French national team – Courtois, Mattler, Delfour – did allow Pierrot to play with them, once, in goal, but after his side lost eleven–nil they said he wasn’t tall enough to jump for the high shots and all the other positions on the teams were taken.
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