The Raspberry Room

Alison Lohans

Description

In behind the raspberry bushes is a special place, a place Abby doesn't trust to just anyone. Then she looks through a knothole in the fence and right into a blue, blue eye. A toy tractor appears on her side of the fence and she pokes her little brother's stuffed blue monkey into the hole. The next morning she finds it with its tail ripped off. Who does the blue eye belong to?

Sujets

• Juvenilee Fiction
• Play
• Imagination

Informations

• Publié par: Orca Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9781554697434
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

The Raspberry Room
Alison Lohans
with illustrations by Gillian Newland
Text copyright 2006 Alison Lohans Interior illustrations copyright 2006 Gillian Newland
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Lohans, Alison, 1949-
The raspberry room / Alison Lohans; with illustrations by Gillian Newland. (Orca echoes)
Electronic Monograph Issued also in print format. ISBN 9781551436128 (pdf) -- ISBN 9781554697434 (epub)
I. Newland, Gillian II. Title. III. Series.
PS8573.O35R38 2006 jC813 .54 C2006-900337-8
First Published in the United States : 2006
Library of Congress Control Number : 2006920807
Summary : A secret spot and a hole in the fence lead Abby into some difficult situations before she makes a new friendship and forges an old one anew.
Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage sBook Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP), the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council.
In Canada: Orca Book Publishers PO Box 5626, Station B Victoria, BC Canada V8R 6S4
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For Kathie and Ron; for Caroline, who knows about playing; and for Betsy, Madison, Miriam and Tansy . -A.L.
Contents
Chapter One The Hole in the Fence
Chapter Two The Little Red Tractor
Chapter Three Brayden s Blue Monkey
Chapter Four Running Away
Chapter Five Thomas
Chapter Six The Raspberry Room
Chapter One The Hole in the Fence
Abby looked back over her shoulder. Come! she called. Follow me!
Her friend Laura was still on the swing. I ll get dirty, she said.
Raspberry leaves swished around Abby s arms and legs. Playing in the raspberry patch was more fun than swinging. Come! she said again. I have something to show you!
Maybe Laura didn t hear. The raspberry patch was at one end of the yard. The swings were in the middle of the yard. The grass was in between. Laura kept on swinging.
Abby kicked some dry leaves. Laura had been busy all week. At last she had time to play. But all Laura wanted to do was swing.
Don t you want to see it? Abby talked loudly, so Laura would be sure to hear. There s a special little room! It s by the fence.
She had found the raspberry room two days ago. She had been jumping over a make-believe monster, when her sandal flew off and landed in the raspberry patch. Abby had searched through the make-believe jungle. And there it was! Her sandal was in a little room, right by the fence. The tall raspberry plants made green swishy walls. In the raspberry room, she couldn t see the swings. She couldn t even see the house.