The Missing Link: Part 1

By KATE THOMPSON

Everybody in our town had their own ideas about my stepbrother, Danny. Some of them called him disabled, some said he was autistic, and some just referred to him as 'that poor boy'. The truth was that there were only two people who knew what Danny really was. One was his father, who didn't believe it. The other was his mother, who did.

I was on the Titanic. All my friends were there, and Mom and Dad; my real dad, not Maurice, and hundreds of other people. Inside, the lights were blazing, but it was dark outside the port-holes and I knew that Danny was out there, swimming around in the freezing waters. I looked down and discovered that I had a fiddle in my hand. When I looked around, I saw that everyone else had fiddles, too. On the stage in front of us, Leonardo di Caprio was tapping a music stand with a conductor's baton. Tap, tap.I lifted the fiddle, and at the same time I realised that I didn't know how to play it. Tap, tap. Flames began to spring up among the people. All over the place. Just from nowhere. I looked at the blank portholes and wondered how to get out; how to join Danny out there. I couldn't remember how I had got in. Fear began to clutch at me.

Publisher: Random House

Price: $16.95

Age group: 9-14 years


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