Kids into Books: The Kids From Quiller's Bend

Author: Marle Gibson

Illustrator: Linda McClelland

Publisher: Shortland Publications, $8.95

Age Group: 10-12 years


"When we first bought this house, we were going to give it a coat of paint and sell it," Dad told me once. "That was before you came along. Then, there was Jayshree, and after that we couldn't afford to move. Anyway, we'd started a garden and ..." He shrugged his shoulders. "I don't think we wanted to move."

"You didn't, you mean," Mum said. "There are much nicer parts of town than this. I've always wanted to live up in Brook Terrace.

I shut my mouth tightly, before I said something I shouldn't. We'd have to be crazy to live in Brook Terrace. The Perkins boys live there!

It was ages since Davy and I had had anything to do with Albert Perkins.