Nice One, Smithy!: Part 1

By PAUL MAY

This is me. Fizz Parker. That's what everyone calls me. Well, almost everyone. I can't help it that my mum called me Felicity. She says it's a pretty name - I ask you! It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the teachers. I even went to Mrs Kingsley - she's our headteacher - and I said to her, "Please, Mrs Kingsley, why can't the teachers call me Fizz?"

"We don't use nicknames in class, Felicity," she said.

"But you told us people shouldn't call other people names they don't like," I said. "It's a school rule."

"That's different," Mrs Kingsley snapped. "Felicity is the name you were born with. You should be used to it by now."

How unreasonable can you get? I wouldn't have told you, or course, but you were bound to find out. Only it's not my fault, so don't laugh, you can laugh at this lot. There's Smithy, Sanjay, Leroy, Danny and Jack. We're all in Class Five at Hillside Primary, and we're all crazy about football. Only, until this year our lives were a misery and a torment.

Publisher: Corgi

Price: $14.95

Age group: 9-13 years


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