The Left-Outs
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The Left-Outs
(Puffin Books)
978-0140344196, RRP £3.25, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
Joan is energetically awful, deflated temporarily by her father's refusal to have her live with him and the discovery that he has a girl-friend. When she's turned down for a speaking part in the class production of The Pied Piper, she finds a new companionship with the rest of the 'left-outs', cast as rats, who develop their own play and become a formidable force against the taunts of other children. The way these left-outs flourish and develop is both funny and moving.