Jake's Tower: Part 1

By ELIZABATH LAIRD

I found a secret place today. It was by accident. I was facing out of the house, running as fast as I could, anything to get away, and I got through the hole in the fence at the end of the lane, just above the railway line.

I wriggled though the bushes, and then I fell into it. Right in. Splat.

It's a good place. There are two huge square blocks, chunks of concrete, with a bit of space between. Not more than a metre and a half, I'd say. The blocks must have been there for ages because plants and creepers have grown up all over and round them. The creepers stretch over between the blocks to make a kind of roof. Once I've crawled inside it's like being in a little house. My house.

I could clean this place up and make it better. I could get a bit of plastic sheeting to put under the creepers to make a watertight roof. I could sleep here then if I had to. If it comes to that.

Publisher: Macmillan

Age group: 12 plus yrs


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