By Martine Murray
ISBN-10: 1865086231
ISBN-13: 9781865086231
Cedar B. Hartley is already beautiful strange. She has pink hair, she is excellent at balancing and he or she has a puppy known as smelly. She does not hang around with the in-crowd, she'd wish to be within the park training acrobatics. Then she meets a boy known as Kite with a voice like a river, whose mom is a circus coach and her lifestyles quite begins to get fascinating. She discovers that taking a look at the area the wrong way up is an invaluable strategy to see her lacking brother, her hard-working mom and her less-than-perfect father in a very new manner. A startling and unique novel from a clean new voice in kid's fiction.
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It was a lie that we hadn’t heard from him, because he sends postcards. Usually they’re just a bit of cardboard cut out of a box, with a texta drawing on the front and two sentences on the back. Like this: dear Mum and Cedy, day after day, up here beating my wings and staggering, imagine the sky and how it wonders. But I wasn’t going to tell Harold about that, firstly because he suffers from a lack of imagination and so he wouldn’t appreciate it, but also because I have a feeling that something funny went down.
Do you know it? ’ ‘Yeah,’ I lied, because I wanted him to think I’d had a life-long dream to be a circus performer. Which is just a small variation on the truth, really, since I’ve always been leading up to it. First, I wanted to be a vet, then a nurse, then an actress and then a gymnast, but now I’ve finally decided for sure. I want to be a circus performer, an acrobat. ’ I added quickly, to deflect any questions about Circus Berzerkus. His head dropped. ‘My dad had a fall four years ago and got a back injury, which meant he had to leave the circus.
It’s the pigeons who are cooing, of course, not the bridge, though if you didn’t see the pigeons hidden up underneath it, you could think it was the bridge. I try to work out what they might be saying. So far, I know this much—it’s a tender and mushy sentiment like, Oh my darling, let me make your nest more comfortable. There, shall I give your little bird claws a rub? Would you like an Orange Thin? Cooing translation is not as stupid as you might think, because I once heard of a monk called Francis in Italy who could talk to animals and birds.
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