Sass andTraz Save the Library

By Michelle Worthington

Sassafras and Alcatraz are twins who couldn't be more different, except for the fact that they love their local library and their mother is best friends with the librarian. They sit in the library while their mother coaches their older brothers football team. The librarian, Ms Burns, tells them the Mayor is going to demolish the library to make way for a car park and there is nothing she can do about it. When Sass goes down to the basement for the packing boxes, she puts her hands on the old library files that hold the Dewey Decimal Cards and something magical happens. She calls the characters of the books to life. The library is helping them to find a way to fight. Can they find the right combination of characters, including the knights, pirates and scientists, to stop the council and save the library?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daisy Lane Publishing
• Release date: Aug 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9780648819363

Michelle Worthington

Michelle Worthington is an international award-winning author, screenwriter and business woman. Shortlisted twice for the Children's Book Council of Australia's picture book of the year, two-time winner of the International Book Award and finalist in the USA Best Book Awards, Michelle also received a Gellett Burgess Award and a Silver Moonbeam Award for her contribution to celebrating diversity in literature. Michelle is dedicated to encouraging a strong love of reading and writing in young children and enjoys working with charities that support the vision of empowering youth through education. Author currently resides in Sheldon, QLD.

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Sass and Traz

Save the Library

written by

Michelle Worthington

Illustrated by Naomi Greaves

D A I S Y L A N E P U B L I S H I N G

COPYRIGHT © 2021 BY Michelle Worthington.

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Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.

Worthington / Michelle — First Edition ISBN: (SC) 9780648819356

ISBN: (e)  9780648819363

Dedication

For Mrs Burns

The librarian who taught me the magic of books.

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Contents

Chapter 1............................1

Chapter 2............................7

Chapter 3.............................15

Chapter 4.............................20

Chapter 5.............................26

Chapter 6.............................35

Chapter 7.............................40

Chapter 8.............................46

Chapter 9.............................54

Chapter 10............................60

Chapter 11............................65

Chapter 12............................71

Chapter 13............................77

About The Author.....................85

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Sassafras snorted. ‘If I were in charge, things would be different. I would ban homework, make sleeping in an Olympic sport and Dad would never have to work on Saturdays.’ Her twin brother laughed for the first time that day. Alcatraz didn’t always agree with her, but he seemed to like how excited she got. Being twins, they both had a

pointed face and huge green eyes, but his were set slightly further apart and gazed seriously out from between two curtains of yellow hair.

‘There is no way I want you to be the leader of anything I am a part of, let alone a whole country,’ he said, but he nodded his head in agreement. ‘It would be a lot easier if Dad was home on weekends.’

Sass ran her hands through her mop of yellow curls, making them stand even more on end.

‘Ugh. Poor Dad,’ she said. ‘He would rather watch Max play footy than be cleaning the school.’

Rocking back and forth in his wheelchair, Traz gave his sister a crooked smile. Their parents owned a cleaning company which meant their Dad worked nights and weekends on commercial jobs

and their Mum worked at people’s houses while

they were at school.

‘At least we don’t have to sit down there when he’s not here,’ said Traz, shrugging his shoulders and looking towards