Alice-Miranda in Japan 9

by Jacqueline Harvey

  Miss Grimm had begun ushering students to the dining room. She walked over to Alice-Miranda and her friends, a huge smile plastered on her face.

  ‘Make sure you take lots of photographs, girls,’ Miss Grimm said, lowering her voice conspiratorially. ‘I want to know everything about the palace.’

  The headmistress then pointed towards Miss Reedy, who was rounding up the year seven girls to walk back to Caledonia Manor.

  ‘You’d better get moving, Jacinta,’ the woman warned before hurrying away towards some of the younger children who had started an impromptu game of chasings over by the library.

  ‘What would you know about the palace?’ Caprice narrowed her eyes at Alice-Miranda and her friends. She remembered the way Queen Georgiana had been so cosy with them at the end of their school camp. ‘Are you going or something?’

  Millie nodded smugly.

  ‘But my mother said children weren’t allowed.’ Caprice’s porcelain face grew red and steam could almost be seen pouring from her ears.

  ‘I thought you didn’t like Queen Georgiana, anyway,’ Jacinta said.

  ‘That’s not the point. Why should you all get to go? I’m going to make Mummy take me. You wait and see,’ the girl hissed and stormed away.

  ‘You shouldn’t have said anything, Millie,’ Sloane scolded. ‘What if Caprice convinces her mother to let her come? She’ll ruin our whole weekend.’

  Millie sighed.

  ‘She must be terribly lonely,’ Alice-Miranda said. She watched the girl push her way into a younger group of students.

  ‘Well,’ Millie said, drawing herself up as tall as she could, ‘it serves her right after what she did on camp. Anyway, I’d prefer not to think about her. I’m starving and that smells like Mrs Smith’s chicken casserole to me. Come on.’

  The girls waved goodbye to Jacinta and charged off to the dining room.

  About the Author

  Jacqueline Harvey taught for many years in girls’ boarding schools. She is the author of the bestselling Alice-Miranda series and the Clementine Rose series, and was awarded Honour Book in the 2006 CBCA Awards for her picture book The Sound of the Sea. She now writes full-time and is working on more Alice-Miranda and Clementine Rose adventures.

  For more about Jacqueline and Alice-Miranda, go to:

  www.jacquelineharvey.com.au

  Books by Jacqueline Harvey

  Alice-Miranda at School

  Alice-Miranda on Holiday

  Alice-Miranda Takes the Lead

  Alice-Miranda at Sea

  Alice-Miranda in New York

  Alice-Miranda Shows the Way

  Alice-Miranda in Paris

  Alice-Miranda Shines Bright

  Clementine Rose and the Surprise Visitor

  Clementine Rose and the Pet Day Disaster

  Clementine Rose and the Perfect Present

  Clementine Rose and the Farm Fiasco

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  Alice-Miranda in Japan

  9781742757605

  Copyright © Jacqueline Harvey 2014

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  A Random House Australia book

  Published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd

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  First published by Random House Australia in 2014

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  Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

  Author: Harvey, Jacqueline

  Title: Alice-Miranda in Japan/Jacqueline Harvey

  ISBN: 978 1 74275 760 5 (ebook)

  Series: Harvey, Jacqueline. Alice-Miranda; 9

  Target audience: For primary school age

  Subjects: Vacations – Japan – Fiction

  Friendship – Fiction

  Dewey number: A823.4

  Cover and internal illustrations by J.Yi

  Cover design by Mathematics www.xy-1.com

  Internal design by Midland Typesetters, Australia

  Typesetting and eBook production by Midland Typesetters, Australia

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