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    The Story Fixer
    The Story Fixer
    The Story Fixer
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    The Story Fixer

    By Jen Chambers

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    Cassandra Knight just can’t seem to get things right where school’s concerned. If there were awards for students who got the most detentions she’d win them all!

    But when she receives a library detention one afternoon something magical happens. Time stops for Cassie as she finds herself in the world of The Book Fairies, whose job it is to complete stopped stories. The Book Fairies need her help. They have waited a long time for the right person to come along and Cassie, it turns out, is just that person. Cassie doesn’t believe in Fairies at all. She left them behind when she was in kindy and she doesn’t do fantasy but when the Fairies explain their problem Cassie decides that it just might make a very boring detention a little less boring.

    She agrees to help and so the adventure begins.
    The Fairies drop Cassie into the stopped story of a murdered boy where she meets a strange mixture of characters and becomes a part of the story herself.

    She finds herself caught up in a world of injustice, corruption and just the odd bit of evil. How she manages to get the story started again is what this book is all about.

    So join Cassie in her first adventure as “The Story Fixer” and share her journey.

    The Story Fixer is a story of magic, fantasy, hope and possibility.

    The author is a teacher and a writer who has always been a kid at heart, so this story is suitable for middle to upper grade primary, or kids around eight to 12 years of age...and adults who find they need to touch base with their inner child every now and then!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTellwell Talent
    Release dateJul 15, 2013
    ISBN9780992300821
    The Story Fixer
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    Jen Chambers

    Jen Chambers was born in another century, in Grantham, UK.Grantham is famous for:1. Isaac Newton2. having the first female policewoman in England3. having one of the only remaining chained book libraries in the world4. being Margaret Thatcher’s birthplace and, of course,5. Jen.After a shaky start to life involving a war, adoption, a children’s home and a long journey overseas, which meant leaving school behind, Jen worked in factories, dental surgeries and dog kennels.Later she worked as a jillaroo in the Australian outback and as a governess near West Wyalong, where she actually had an old school building to “teach” in. Her story "A schoolday in every way but normal" was actually inspired by her experiences in that old Victorian schoolhouse.Jen even drove a truck for a while. And after she ran out of jobs she decided to become a teacher.She’s been teaching on and off, here and there and this and that now for about 30 years.And she’s been writing ever since she could crawl over and “write” on misted up window-panes on cold winter days.Jen has quite a few stories that have brilliant beginnings but that are just waiting for the Story Fixer to work on.

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      The Story Fixer - Jen Chambers

      The Story Fixer

      Jen Chambers

      This is an IndieMosh book

      brought to you by MoshPit Publishing

      an imprint of Mosher’s Business Support Pty Ltd

      PO BOX 147

      Hazelbrook NSW 2779

      indiemosh.com.au

      Copyright 2017 © Jen Chambers

      All rights reserved

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      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any person or entity, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the author and publisher.

      Disclaimer

      This story is entirely a work of fiction.

      No character in this story is taken from real life. Any resemblance to any person or persons living or dead is accidental and unintentional.

      The author, their agents and publishers cannot be held responsible for any claim otherwise and take no responsibility for any such coincidence.

      – PROLOGUE –

      OR: A BIT ABOUT ME!

      My name is Cassandra Knight and I’m my own worst enemy. I know it but I just can’t seem to do anything about it. I don’t do fighting well at all either, unless one of my parents is involved.

      I think school should be fun, a place to escape my life at home. I reckon I’m as bright as the next kid and my mind is just as active, too. In fact, like most kids my age, my mind is a vacuum cleaner. It sucks up anything and everything. My teachers think that’s a bit of a problem though.

      As I see it, the whole point about school and vacuum-cleaner minds is to learn how to be selective about what is actually sucked in. In my case, everything goes in but none of it gets sorted. I don’t mind that, but unfortunately everybody at the school over the age of twelve – and that’s the ladies in the front office as well as all the teachers – does.

      As for my average school day, well I’d rather be a frog sitting on a lily pad catching flies, or even a chameleon practising my camouflage techniques.

      Also, standing in line outside a classroom for a zillion hours is really not my thing, because I tend to get chatty. Loud chatty – so that anyone in the next suburb can hear it.

      In class I don’t like having to sit at a desk and be ordered around and told what to do, who to talk to and who to sit with.

      And I so hate getting detentions, which I seem to get all the time. My philosophy regarding detentions is that all teachers at my school should be locked up in the first aid room for a whole term. Maybe then they would think twice about handing out detentions as if they were chocolates!

      The reason the first aid room is used for detention is because it’s right next to the principal’s office. How cunning is that? There’s really no room for kids who actually get sick though, because I’m always in there.

      I also dislike sirens. Sirens belong on ambulances and police cars, not in schools. Whoever invented those things should be locked in a room all day with the siren going non-stop.

      But … I do like reading. I’d read the ingredients label on a dog food can if that’s all there was left on the planet to read! So you will understand when I say I love the library but I don’t like library lessons. The library’s fine, providing I’m left on my own to read what I want.

      But it’s not like that in our library. Most of the kids spend half the library period texting each other or playing games on their phones. For some reason Mrs Hearwell – she’s the teacher librarian – never seems to notice them so they never get caught.

      So now you know a bit about me read on and find out what happened to me last week. I’ve got this secret diary app on my iPad and I wrote it all down so I wouldn’t forget it. It started like this …

      – CHAPTER 1 –

      NOT A GOOD START TO THE DAY

      First up I got my maths book back with ‘3 out of 10’ written in red pen. During recess Julie Snodgrass – yeah, that’s her real name – told me that she and Nick Pinnock were an item. She’s only eleven and three quarters! I was so annoyed (sorry, can’t swear here although I’d really, really like to) I went

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