The Fright; Who's Talking?
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The Fright
Illustrated by Susan Hellard
Who's Talking?
Illustrated by Susan Hellard
Contemporary urban school stories set in Woodside Juniors. In The Fright a new girl joins Class 5 and at first everyone is highly amused by her antics, everyone that is except loner Catherine who longs to make friends with her but 'is far too turned in' as her mother puts it. Catherine's efforts to copy Suzanne's crazy ways and win approval misfire badly but finally the two girls come to a new understanding when they start writing together.
In Who's Talking? a strict supply teacher wrongly accuses chatterbox Sophie of talking in a test and, after near disaster, this results in Sophie and the culprit, Pavindra, forming a bond between them.
There are a number of thought-provoking points for exploration at the end of each story. I can see these and the other Woodside School titles in this 'Readalones' series becoming popular with readers of around the same age as the members of Class 5 (8/9).
