Clarence: My Diary of a Very Unusual Hamster

By P.J. Kruger

Eleven-year-old Sid gets some hamsters from his parents who feel that he may enjoy their company as well as a chance to learn about ‘responsibility’. Sid decides to keep a diary. Sid’s diary entries follow the observations he makes in his unsuccessful attempt to keep and raise the hamsters. One of the hamsters, Clarence, a rather big black and white one with a funny look in his eye, just seems to get bigger and bigger whilst the others seem to mysteriously disappear. Sid eventually discovers why.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9789810767754

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CLARENCE

My Diary of a Most Unusual Hamster

BY P.J KRUGER

First Published 2013

Published by Peter James Kruger

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ISBN 978-981-07-6775-4

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April 29

Welcome to my diary. I have never written a diary before as I thought that they would be too much work but I am going to give it a try as I like writing and to tell you the truth, I’m feeling pretty bored. I don’t have many friends. I don’t have any friends at all really. So you, my diary, are going to be my friend. I will talk to you and you will have to listen. You don’t have a choice. You have to listen to me. But lucky for you, you don’t have to answer, just listen. I am going to write about me and my boring life and my pets (which I will be getting soon), Mum and Dad said that they will good for me as I am going through a ‘bad patch’ and they can be my little friends. We do have a pet cat called Speckles but it is a family pet and it looks after itself really. I have a baby sister, Caroline, but she is just a baby and doesn’t do much but make a lot of noise. Anyway I could use this diary to look back and remember what it was like when I get old like when I’m fifteen or sixteen. It would be like a story as it happened but even more interesting because I don’t know really what is going to happen and how it will end. I am sure that it will be interesting though. PS (This means I am going to add an extra bit) I will also do some drawings to help show what happens. I am not very good at drawing but I like doing them. I just realized that it doesn’t matter if they aren’t much good because I am the only one who is going to look and read this diary anyway and it doesn’t matter if the drawings aren’t any good. Except if someone finds it when I am dead and then it won’t matter anyway. By the way I forgot to tell you that my name is Sid which is short for Sidney which is the worst name in the world and you better not ever call me Sidney or else. Sid sounds much better...........and I am eleven.

The hamsters Mum and Dad ordered for me came today. My new little friends came in a special cardboard box. My father brought them at a pet store called ‘Petland’ which is on Blackmore Street near the Furniture Mall. We went there last week and mum asked me to have a look around and choose a pet that would be easy to manage. The hamsters were quiet and looked nice. I wouldn’t have to take them for a walk or tell them to