Girl Wonder and the Terrific Twins by Malorie Blackman

Author:Malorie Blackman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448192991
Publisher: RHCP

“Ooh!” I groaned. “Ooooh!”

Mum called the doctor.

“Now then, Maxine,” Doctor Turner said after taking my temperature, “your mum told me that you’re eating a lot of oranges. She said you’re eating oranges and nothing else. Is that right?”

I nodded. Oooooooh! My stomach was really hurting.

“Why have you suddenly become so keen on oranges?” Doctor Turner asked.

Mum was glaring at me from beside Doctor Turner. She had her hands on her hips.

“I love oranges.” I didn’t exactly lie, but I didn’t exactly tell the truth either.

“Is that the whole reason?” Mum asked softly.

I thought hard. My stomach ache was getting worse and I was as miserable as miserable but I didn’t want to tell Mum why I was eating so many oranges. She might stop me, or worse still, she might get annoyed.

“Yeah, that’s the whole reason,” I replied.

“Doctor Turner, can I speak to you for a moment?” Mum said.

The doctor and my mum went outside my room to stand on the landing.

“I . . . oranges . . . cure . . . oranges . . . oranges . . . oranges.” That was all I heard, even though I pushed my ears as far forward as possible.

Mum and Doctor Turner came back into the room.

“Maxine, Doctor Turner agrees with me that what you need is a diet of oranges and nothing else,” Mum began. “I was going to make you a cheese, onion and potato pie, followed by ice cream and chocolate sauce and a long glass of ice-cold cream soda, but . . .”

“It’s all right,” I said quickly. “I don’t mind having that.”

“Nonsense.” Mum smiled. “You said you love oranges. That’s all you’ve eaten for the last two days.”

“But just to make sure that Maxine gets all her essential vitamins and minerals, I would prescribe a teaspoonful of cod-liver oil three times a day and a chewy vitamin tablet twice a day,” said Doctor Turner, scribbling on a pad. “That way Maxine can eat as many oranges as she likes and nothing else.”

“NO! I DON’T WANT ANY MORE ORANGES,” I pleaded. “Maybe . . . maybe I’m not so keen on them after all.”

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