The Curse of the Jelly Babies by Karen McCombie

Author:Karen McCombie [Karen McCombie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571272587
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

As it wriggled into the tunnel under the fence, I saw it turn and peek back at me with its bushbaby eyes.

‘Bye, Rubby!’ I saw it mouth at me.

Bye, Thing! I said silently in my head, giving it the tiniest of secret farewell smiles.

‘BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH?’ I suddenly heard Mr Miller say.

Whipping my head and my smile around, I looked at Mr Miller and then at Jackson, hoping my friend would give me a clue about what question his dad had just asked.

‘So, which of these IS your favourite food, Ruby?’ Jackson translated for me, sweeping his hand over the rubbish picnic selection.

‘Oh! Um, this one, actually!’ I answered, picking up the first thing that came to hand and taking a big bite.

Of raw potato.

Mmm.

(The things you do for a thing called Thing …)

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