Charlie and the Haunted Tent and Charlie and the Big Snow by Hilary McKay

Author:Hilary McKay [McKay, Hilary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781444919202
Publisher: Hachette Children
Published: 2014-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

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Max’s Fault (I)

Charlie was seven years old when the big snow came. It was almost the first time in his entire life there had ever been enough snow to make a snowman. The only other time it had happened he had not been allowed out because he was ill. He had caught the illness from his big brother, Max. Even now, a year later, he had not quite forgiven Max for this.

However, at last it had happened again. Charlie woke up and found that the bedroom he shared with Max was filled with clear cold light. White splodges patterned the window glass. The sky looked close and grey.

Snow! thought Charlie as he scrambled out of bed, and then he thought, Nobody bothered to tell me.

Charlie’s father, who was always the first to be up, would already be on his way to work. His mother was in the shower; Charlie could hear the water running. Neither of them had bothered to shake Charlie awake and tell him that it had snowed at last.

That did not surprise Charlie very much, because after all they were grown-ups and did not have any sense. But it seemed to Charlie that Max should have woken him. Max was nowhere to be seen.

So even before he got to the bedroom window and looked out at the garden in the snow, Charlie was feeling a little hurt and disappointed. Looking out made him feel more disappointed than ever.

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