The Dare Game: Part 4

By JACQUELINE WILSON, Illustrator NICK SHARRATT

I had a little potter in Paperchase and bought this big fat purple notebook with my pocket money. I"m going to write all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in it, as warped and as rambly as I can make them. And I'll write my story too. I've written all about myself before in The Story of Tracy Beaker. So this can be The Story of Tracy Beaker Two or Find Out What Happens Next to the Brave and Brilliant Tracy Beaker or Further Fabulous Adventures of the Tremendous Terrific Tracy Beaker or Read More About the Truly Terrible Tracy Beaker, Even more Wicket Than the Wicked Witch of the West.

Yes. I was telling you about The Wizard of Oz. There's only one bit that I truly dread. I can"t actually watch it. The first time I saw it I very nearly cried. (I don't cry, though. I'm tough. As old boots. New boots. The biggest fiercest reinforced Doc Martens ... ). It's the bit right at the end where Dorothy is getting fed up with being in Oz. Which is mad, if you ask me. Who'd want to go back to that boring black and white Kansas and be an ordinary kid where they take your dog away when you could dance round Oz in your ruby slippers?

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