St Grizzle's School for Girls, Geeks and Tag-along Zombies by Karen McCombie

Author:Karen McCombie [Karen McCombie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847159694
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2018-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

“But WHY are you here?” I ask Arch as we pass the sign for “St Grizelda’s School for Girls” and turn into the school’s drive. The smart “Grizelda” part of the sign has a spray-painted line through it and a hand-squiggled “Grizzle’s” added above.

Arch is in too much pain to notice. He’s limping – he climbed over a stile in a fence on his way here and the rotten wood gave way under him, leaving him with a bruised and scraped knee.

As for Swan and the others, they’re up ahead of us, and just now I overheard Swan phoning Lulu to tell her to expect an unexpected guest.

Well, not EVERYONE is up ahead of us. Boudicca is tagging along by Arch’s side, making herself useful by holding his backpack, which he dropped when he blundered out of the hedge. She keeps gazing up at him as if he is a famous pop star or something instead of a dishevelled eleven-year-old boy who shouldn’t be here.

“I’m here cos of the film you posted last night.” Arch answers my question, leaning on my shoulder for support. “You said in your poem that all that was missing at St Grizzle’s was ME. So I thought I’d better pay you a visit!”

As ever Arch is trying to sound jokey. But him turning up like this – truanting from school on a Thursday, travelling all the way here on his own … it’s not really funny ha-ha stuff, I think, as a pancake-of-worry flips in my tummy.

And no wonder we mistook Arch for a wild-eyed monster – he looks like he’s been dragged through a hedge backwards. Which he pretty much has – it took both me and Swan to pull him free of the thorny branches back when he made his surprise appearance.

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