by Rae Earl
Lee Price
The marvellous not so fat-face – though please get a laptop or an iPhone or SOMETHING!
Love and thanks also to Lloydie James Lloyd, Lesa Compton, PK & CK Koukoularides, Erica Hodge and to all my friends from Stamford High School.
The brilliant Eve White
Thank you for always asking the questions I’m too wimpy to ask AKA money ones.
All at Walker Books
Denise Johnstone-Burt, Ellen Holgate and Daisy Jellicoe. Daisy I’m nicking your name. It’s too good not to use. This is your legal notice.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously. All statements, activities, stunts, descriptions, information and material of any other kind contained herein are included for entertainment purposes only and should not be relied on for accuracy or replicated as they may result in injury.
First published in Great Britain 2013 by Walker Books Ltd
87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ
Text © 2013 Rae Earl
Cover artwork © 2013 Sarah J Coleman
Cover photographs courtesy of Shutterstock.com: raw bacon by Richard Griffin, puppy beagle by Eric Isselee, old mobile phone by thumb, elderly people sign by Aquir, fresh mackerel fish by Evlakhov Valeriy, Canada goose by Miao Liao, blueberry muffin by Paul Turner, ripe melon by Viktar Malyshchyts, coffee cup
by Valentyn Volkov, classic donut by Aaron Amat
Interior illustrations © 2013 Walker Books Ltd
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ISBN 978-1-4063-4858-3 (ePub)
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