Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles (24 page)
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Authors: Sabine Durrant
Tags: #General, #Fiction, #Humorous stories, #Juvenile Fiction, #England, #Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, #Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), #Family & Relationships, #Social Issues, #Parenting, #Teenage girls, #Family, #Mothers and daughters, #Girls & Women, #Social Issues - General, #Friendship, #Family - General, #Social Issues - Adolescence, #Adolescence, #Emotions & Feelings, #Social Issues - Emotions & Feelings, #Diaries, #Diary fiction, #Motherhood
I don’t believe it! I’ve just seen William. He’s on his roof. He must have climbed out of the bathroom window, and now he’s hanging on to the chimney, leaning out and waving. I just stood up, so I could wave too. It felt precarious; there was nothing to hold on to. I had to lean back against the window, but it was wonderful. I could see William waving at me, and I was smiling so hard I thought my face was going to break. When you stand up, I never realized, you can see across the roofs of the houses on his street to the river. You can see the bridge and the tower blocks beyond. And beyond that London, Paris, les de Bellechasses. There’s William, my William, waving at me like the mad boy he is, and behind him, stretching out for miles and miles, is the whole rest of the world.
Table of Contents
Cross Your Heart Connie Pickles
Chapter one
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine