The Cat Mummy: Part 6

By JACQUELINE WILSON

I've got a dad but I don't see him all that often because he's left for work before I get up and he's nearly always still at work when I go to bed.

I once heard Gran say my dad is married to his job. Just so long as he doesn't marry a real lady.

I definitely don't want a stepmother. I've read all about stepmothers in fairy stories. They don't have a good image.

Laura's got a stepdad and she certainly doesn't think much of him.

He's the one who put poor Dustbin on a diet. He even suggested Laura's mum should go on a diet and made her upset about having a big bottom - which she can't help.

Publisher: Random House

Price: $14.95

Age group: 8-13 years