No One Knows: The One In The Middle, #1

By Robbie Blanchett

I've got a brother, he's little and pesky. I've got a sister, she's big and bossy. So that leaves me, I'm the one stuck in the middle.

 

I had an important message from school, so I left my little brother, Old Dan, thanking Mrs Brown for bringing us home and everything. As soon as I got inside the door, my mother told me off for so many things at once, I forgot about the message. That's what mothers are like.

 

I had to do my school assignments. Dan insisted on helping me, which was no help at all and made a big mess as usual. I asked my big sister, Em (that's Em for Emma) to help us with my assignments and she threatened to zap us. That's what sisters and brothers are like.

 

I enjoy drawing and so I decided to put some in this book. Suddenly Em was helpful because she likes drawing and she stuck in her own bits. Em said we have to call them 'illustrations'. I asked her why we have to call them that and she said, "Because that's what they are called."

 

You could buy this book for Christmas, or Easter, or Thanksgiving, or whenever you like. Em says it all depends on the time of year.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Budleigh Books
• Release date: Jan 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393866046

Book preview

PREFACE

My big sister Em says I have to use this bit to explain some very difficult words.

(And the first hard word is)

REVISION

Em (short for Emma) is shouting at me (and I quote): "Do NOT keep using brackets all the time!"

Em also told me I have got to let you know something: "This book is a revision of Horrible Moldy: The prequel."

I asked Em, What is a revision? I asked this question because I wanted to know the answer.

What she told me doesn’t make sense. She said, Well you see, Ant, it means that this is the same thing as it was before, except that now it’s different.

But if it’s the same, it can’t be different, can it? And that’s why I say, no one knows what a revision is.

My next difficult word is

PREFACE

(And this time I didn’t use any brackets.)

ANT: What’s a preface?

EM: The word ‘Pre’ means it comes in front of, or before. Therefore, a preface is the bit that comes in front of the next bit.

ANT: What is the next bit that the preface comes in front of?

EM: "Obviously, that’s whatever bit comes after the first bit. In a book that second bit might be called ‘the face’. I think that’s why a preface is the bit that comes in front of the face."

ANT: Face? My book hasn’t got a face. That means I don’t even know what a face in a book is!

EM: You wouldn’t.

PREQUEL

I wanted to tell you that the last word I’m going to explain to you is ‘prequel’ and I was going to do it using some brackets, but Em shouted: "You are