The Leprechaun Who Wished He Wasn't by Siobhán Parkinson

Author:Siobhán Parkinson [Siobhan Parkinson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847175007
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Published: 2012-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

He stumbled out of bed, wriggled into his office clothes, knotted his beastly office tie, and went down to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Then he noticed that nobody else was up yet, so he went back to the foot of the stairs and yelled, ‘Get up, you lazy things! Time for school!’

And so the whole family got up.

‘How come it’s still dark?’ asked Phoebe’s brother, as he ate his cornflakes.

‘That’s because it’s so early,’ said Phoebe’s father looking at the kitchen clock. ‘After all it’s only … HALF PAST FOUR IN THE MORNING! Good grief! What happened to my alarm clock? Phoebe! Have you been messing with it again?’ And her dad rushed out of the kitchen and up the stairs. Sure enough, the alarm was set for four o’clock.

‘Don’t you ever touch my clock again, Phoebe,’ warned her father as they all went back to bed to snatch a few more hours of sleep.

‘But I never … ‘said Phoebe, yawning.

And that was only the start of it. Over the next few weeks, things went mysteriously wrong in Phoebe’s household.

Her mother put some potatoes in the microwave one day, and came back to find them smouldering and hissing. When she took them out, one of them actually burst into flames!

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