Jake's Tower: Part 6

By ELIZABATH LAIRD

I saw him too late, when I'd already bent down. I moved back again, of course. Pretended I'd only been looking at something through the chain link, but he gave me a funny look. I think he knew that I was hiding something. He must have known. He'll have worked out that there was a hole in the fence, and he'll know I was about to go in there.

What if he does a bit of snooping round? What if he comes in here and finds my secret place?

There's a spider in here. A really big one. I don't mind him. He doesn't bother me, and I don't bother him. I quite like him, actually, because he's making a gigantic web. He'd done all the spokes out from the middle before I got here and now he's filling in with the cross pieces. Backwards and forwards he goes. I've been watching the spider and thinking about Kieran. That's the name of the boy I saw just now. He's in one of the other classes in my year, so I don't know him very well. I'm not sure what he's like, if he's one of those teasing ones, or a quiet sort of person like me.

Publisher: Macmillan

Age group: 12 plus yrs


Want to win this book?
Send us all six of this week's Kids into Books coupons from the print edition of the New Zealand Herald and you'll go into the draw.