The Dare Game: Part 3

By JACQUELINE WILSON, Illustrator NICK SHARRATT

Do you know what she really wrote? "You've tried hard, Tracy, but this is a very rambling story. You also have a very warped imagination!"

I looked up "warp" in the dictionary she's always recommending and it means "to twist out of shape". That's spot on. I'd like to warp Mrs Vomit Bagley, twisting and twisting, until her eyes pop and her arms and legs are wrapped right round her great big bum. That's another thing. Whenever I write the weeniest babiest little rude word Mrs V. B. goes bananas. I don't know what she'd do if I used really bad words like **** and *** and ***** (censored!!).

I looked up "ramble" too. I liked what it said: "To stroll about freely, as for relaxation, with no particular direction". So that's exactly what I did today, instead of staying at boring old school. I bunked off and strolled round the town freely, as relaxed as anything.

Publisher: Random House, $16.95 Age group: 8-12 years