The Round Door: The Cubby House

By Lynette Collins

A little girl named Charli has a ghost friend, DJ. Charli falls ill with the chickenpox and has to stay inside. A round wooden door appears on her bed, under the sheets Charli and DJ have hung up to make a cubby house. The magical door opens into a tunnel that leads to her brothers cubby house, one he has built with his mates in the backyard. Cooper has been having lots of fun without Charli. But now Charli and DJ have some fun of their own, playing funny tricks on the boys!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: May 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543400557

Lynette Collins

Lynette Collins loves to write stories that light up children’s imaginations. She spends her free time making them into books for children, in the hope that the readers will enjoy her characters as much as she enjoys creating them.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 04/28/2017

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The last day of school ended, and then it was summer holidays. Charli and her brother, Cooper, were walking home from school with some of the other kids who lived on their street. When Cooper started to sing, No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks, all the kids joined in. They sang all the way home as they laughed and mucked around.

That afternoon when Cooper’s mamma got home from work, Cooper and his two friends, Nat and Nick, asked if they could have a sleepover. They had six weeks of summer in which to play, so Mamma said yes. The boys all jumped and cheered. Then they ran off to ask Nat and Nick’s mum if it was OK. Of course, Nat and Nick’s mum said yes, for the boys were always sleeping over at Cooper’s.

That night, when they were eating dinner, Cooper asked his mamma if they could make a cubby house in