Wolfie by Emma Barnes Page B

Bunting, the school coach, to try out, he had turned out to be so good that she had given him the position on the spot. “Who’d have thought it?”
grumbled Alex. “He can’t run, he can’t dribble, he can’t shoot — but he
can
save goals! He’s so good we’ll never get rid of him!”
    “Still, think of all the matches you’ll win,” said Lucie comfortingly. “And it will take his mind off Fang, and getting her into more trouble.”
    It was the last day of term. It was snowing again, and Alex and Lucie had met by the gates to exchange presents. Alex had given Lucie a wonderful book about wolves, and Fang a box of Meaty Dog
Chews, which she had sniffed then dropped in the snow.
    “I’m sure she’ll love them,” said Lucie quickly, thinking that Fang would much prefer a haunch of venison, and wondering how she could arrange one.
    Lucie gave Alex a book about football, and Fang gave him an interesting stick she had found in the woods. Alex said he would put the stick in pride of place next to his football trophies.
    Then Fang and Lucie walked home together. The snow was floating down between the branches of the trees. The sky seemed vast, and the houses were dim and dark behind their hedges. Even the cars
by the sides of the street looked more like snow-covered igloos.
    “What’s that?” asked Lucie as an eerie howl echoed through the air. “A wolf!”
    “
Wolf
?” exclaimed Fang. “
That
was a cocker spaniel!”
    “Oh,” said Lucie, blushing.
    As they turned into Lucie’s garden, she said, “It has been wonderful, Fang, since you came to stay. And now it’s Christmas, too. I’ve never been so happy. There’s
just one thing. Do you think I’ll ever see the other wolves again? Especially Silver Paw? I do hope so!”

    Fang smiled her most wolfish smile. “Oh, I think you will,” she said. “After all, you are a Wolf Cub of our Pack. Something tells me this will not be the last of our
adventures!”
    And wolf and girl went inside together.

THE END

Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher
    Emma Barnes
    ISBN: 978-1-905537-30-3 (paperback, RRP £6.99)
     
    Also available as an ebook
     

    Jessica has always planned to be a world-famous scientist one day. But her mother has just become a professional witch!
    Who will take Jessica seriously now?
    To stop her mother wrecking her plans (and breaking up the family), Jessica resolves to show her that no one needs to believe in magic these days. But her plans – like her mother’s
spells – don’t always have the desired effect…

How (Not) To Make Bad Children Good
    Emma Barnes
    ISBN: 978-1-905537-28-0 (paperback, RRP £6.99)
     

    Ever since she bit Father Christmas when she was six months old, it’s been downhill all the way for Martha Bones. She is horrible to her baby brother, Boris, and elder
sister, Sally and her parents are in despair.
    Far away Martha’s behaviour comes to the attention of the Interstellar Agency whose aim is to make bad children good. Fred – who has a poor track record – is sent to Earth as
Martha’s guardian agent. His mission: to transform Martha into a lovely likeable child. However, Martha has other ideas!

The King of the Copper Mountains
    Paul Biegel
    ISBN: 978-1-905537-14-3 (paperback RRP £5.99)
     

    At the end of his thousand-year reign of the Copper Mountains old King Mansolain is tired and his heart is slowing down. When his attendant, the Hare, consults The Wonder
Doctor, he is told he must keep the King engaged in life by telling him a story every night until the Doctor can find a cure.
    The search is on for a nightly story more wonderful than the last, and one by one the kingdom’s inhabitants arrive with theirs; the ferocious Wolf, the lovesick Donkey, the fire-breathing,
three-headed Dragon. Last to arrive is the Dwarf with four ancient books and a prophecy that the King will live for another thousand years – but only if the Wonder Doctor returns in time.