Diary of a Taekwondo Master

Shamini Flint

Description

Marcus is a math whiz who sucks at sports. But his Dad is convinced that Marcus has magic in his kicks. So off goes Marcus to take taekwondo lessons with comical results. He is soon pitted against his class bully, Hulk, in a fight with disastrous consequences. Does Marcus have what it takes to be a taekwondo master ? Written in an illustrated diary format, this humorous novel will have readers laughing out loud while learning a surprising amount about taekwondo.

Sujets

• Children's

Informations

• Publié par: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789351182948
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 15 Mo

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Shamini Flint

DIARY OF A TAEKWONDO MASTER


PUFFIN BOOKS
Contents
About the Author
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Dedication
My Taekwondo diary
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Follow Penguin
Copyright
PENGUIN BOOKS
DIARY OF A TAEKWONDO MASTER
Shamini Flint lives in Singapore with her husband and two children. She is an ex-lawyer, ex-lecturer, stay-at-home mum and writer. She loves cricket!
Shamini has written numerous children s picture books including Jungle Blues, Turtle Takes a Trip and A T-Rex Ate my Homework . She is also the author of the highly-acclaimed Sasha series of children s travel books and the crime novel series, Inspector Singh Investigates .
To know more about her works, visit her website www.shaminiflint.com .
Read More in Puffin by Shamini Flint
Diary of a Cricket God
Diary of a Soccer Star
For Sophia - my beautiful niece.
My Taekwondo diary
Dad wants me to do taekwondo.
I don t even know what that is! But knowing Dad, I m sureit s dangerous.


Actually, I m hopeless at art.

(My art teacher, Mrs. Quill.)
But I don t care. It will be so wonderful to do something gentle.
For once - I won t get hurt.
Unless someone stabs me with a paint brush. And that s unlikely to happen. I hope.



(Mum loves anything I do for her even if it s rubbish - I wish my teachers were like that.)
I bet Spot likes art too. And Fluffy. They could help me!





***
My name is Marcus Atkinson. I m nine years old. Dad drives me nuts.
Dad never listens but he always REMEMBERS.
Don t believe me? I ll give you examples



You see? He never listens to anything I say.
But he remembers everything I tell him - even though he never listens! How does that work?


Yeah, right.


Yeah, right.


You see, he remembers things I tell him - but at the wrong time
JT was the class bully.
But now we re friends because I rescued his kitten when his dad wanted to send it to the RSPCA.
I m looking after the kitten (Fluffy) until JT improves his grades and is allowed to have him back.





Dad s written a book called Pull Yourself Up by your own Boot Straps.
He s always quoting from it. Did I mention that Dad drives me NUTS?
Anyway, you can be too careful ...
Like if you looked left right left to cross a road. And then did it again and again and again you d never get across!


Or if yo