Novellas for Reluctant Readers

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The Mountain’s Blood

“I opened my wardrobe, and an axe fell out, just missing my toes.“Goddess of LOVE! Yuck! Why do I have to be Goddess of LOVE? I’ll never get to use my axe when I’m just Goddess of Love.”
Being the Sumerian Goddess of Love doesn’t give Inanna much opportunity to use the weapons in her wardrobe. But then she discovers a mountain which is poisoning the land, which won’t stop growing, and which refuses to bow down to her. None of the other gods have the courage to face it. Can Inanna defeat the mountain…?
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Tam O Shanter

“No matter what stories Tam had heard about the kirk at Alloway, he was always up for a party. And he had left the pub long before he was ready to go to bed. So he pulled Meg towards the church. This sounded like a party worth gatecrashing.”
If you’re easily scared, you should read this book, with its fantastically spooky pictures by Peter Clover, in the bright sunlight, not in the dark at night!This was an amazing book to write, because for the first time in my writing career, I knew how the story was going to end before I started writing it. But I didn’t know how I was going to get to the end, nor who I was going to meet along the way…
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Drawing a Veil

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Ellie whispered.
“I’m your best friend!”I didn’t want you to talk me out of it.”
Ellie is shocked and surprised when her best friend Amina turns up at school with a headscarf covering her hair. How will the rest of the class react? Will Ellie go back to an older, easier, less demanding friendship? Will Amina still be able to stand up for herself and others..?