Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong

Author:Jeremy Strong [Strong, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ages 8 & Up
ISBN: 9780141910130
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2009-12-04T08:00:00+00:00

He landed smack on his butt on the bonnet of his car and immediately slid straight off and on to the ground. He lay there for a second and then struggled back to his feet.

‘I repeat: who started this riot?’

‘WILL SOMEBODY PLEEEASE HELP ME?!’ pleaded the workman who was STILL dangling from the lamp post.

For a second or two there was no answer. Everyone looked around, wondering what to do, their eyes flicking from the dangling workman to the town sheriff. They knew it wasn’t exactly a riot, but how had it all started? Nobody seemed to be sure. At least, nobody seemed sure until Charlie Smugg spoke up.

‘It was that pesky dog, Streaker,’ he shouted at his dad. ‘It was Streaker and Trevor and that girlfriend of his.’

There was a short silence and then everyone took up the cry. ‘Yes! It was Streaker and Trevor and his girlfriend. There they are!’

We suddenly found a hundred fingers pointing at us, while on the other side of the square the dangling workman finally let go. And that was how Tina, Streaker and I came to be in the police station, almost under arrest. (And the workman came to be in hospital, under sedation.)

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