Kids into books: The Long Walk Home

Author: Pauline Cartwright

Illustrator: Paul Rogers

Publisher Puffin Books, $6.95

Age Group: 6-12 years


Instead of feeling glad that she didn't know where he was, Brad felt angry that she hadn't bothered to look for him any longer.

"Nobody cares about me."

He wrenched a piece of bark from the trunk, flung it at the ground and watched it smash into hundreds of pieces.

For nearly an hour he stayed up in the tree.

It was only the smell of chicken wafting over the fence, from John's house next door, that made him come inside.