He sets his sights high and finally learns how to juggle not three balls, but five mandarins. When Pip's English teacher challenges her students to learn how to juggle three balls, Pip is determined that he will do better than that. Pip is good at English, like his mother but Pip's father wants him to be a soccer star like Nick, Pip's brother, and to win at any cost. Two, three, four - how many mandarins can Pip juggle? A coming-of-age novel about Pip, whose father wants him to be everything that Pip is not. Award-winning author Greg Pyers presents twists and turns which have the reader guessing and being surprised right to the final page. Soon, Carly and Ace are on the run, running from something Carly cannot begin to understand.ĭouble Cross is a chillingly dark adventure set in a not so distant future and exploring a possible future created by advances in genetic technology. But when Carly meets Ace, a teenage fugitive, she quickly sees the other, darker side of this new world. It is, after all, 2032 and genetic manipulation is used to produce whatever people want. I just wanted to stop!įor Carly, a world where thylacines once again roam free and cows can produce strawberry milk is normal. The tractor was bouncing on its suspension, and me with it, like it was actually trying to shake me off. The gravel was racing by in a blur only centimetres under my backside, while the wheels blasted me with sand and grit.
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