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    Of Mammoth Proportions
    Of Mammoth Proportions
    Of Mammoth Proportions
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    Of Mammoth Proportions

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    This book was written to entertain sick children at The Royal Children's Hospital in Victoria by a team from Riverside School in Tasmania, Australia, competing in ‘Write-a-Book-in-a-Day'

    Authors: Elouise Lethborg, Sarah Greenhouse, Ella Booth, Nicola Marshall, Robin Verhoeff, Ashley Badkin, Emma Brown, Charlie O’Toole, Connor Brophy, and Aishwarya Sudhakaran.

    We encourage you to pay for this book as all proceeds go to children's hospitals.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWrite-a-Book-in-a-Day
    Release dateApr 25, 2011
    ISBN9781466092785
    Of Mammoth Proportions
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    Write-a-Book-in-a-Day

    Hospital Books is a collection of books by The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre to stimulate writing, to write children's books for children's hospital libraries.

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      Of Mammoth Proportions - Write-a-Book-in-a-Day

      Dedication

      To anyone who feels lost or out of place,

      We hope you find your way.

      ‘You are a child of the universe

      No less than the trees and the stars;

      You have a right to be here.

      And whether or not it is clear to you,

      No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.’

      Quote from Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

      Parameters:

      Primary Character one: Mechanic

      Primary Character two: School Teacher

      Non-Human Character: Mammoth

      Setting: Car Accident

      Issue: The Last of Their Kind

      Random Words: Honey

      Freedom

      Graffiti

      Glamour

      Repair

      Of Mammoth Proportions

      By Elouise Lethborg, Sarah Greenhouse, Ella Booth, Nicola Marshall, Robin Verhoeff, Ashley Badkin, Emma Brown, Charlie O’Toole, Connor Brophy, and Aishwarya Sudhakaran.

      Published by Write-a-Book-in-a-Day

      at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Authors

      This book is available in print at

      The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre

      kspf@iinet.net.au

      Smashwords Edition,

      License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free e-book. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by these authors. Thank you for your support.

      Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter 1 - A New Day

      Chapter 2 - Other Side of Town

      Chapter 3 - Backseat Driver

      Chapter 4 - The Domino Effect

      Chapter 5 - Playtime

      Chapter 6 - Black Suits

      Chapter 7 - Nightmares

      Chapter 8 - The Trade Off

      Chapter 9 - Spears and Gods

      Epilogue

      Prologue

      She runs her fingers along the cool, rusty, metal bonnet of her 1993 Toyota ute, and a slight smile spreads across her face as she chews her grape-flavoured gum. Almost done now, one final touch and she will have finally done it. All those years of people looking down on her because she was a girl, because they didn’t think she was good enough. This will show them.

      She can’t take her eyes off the scarlet red car, as she walks to her workbench at the edge of her garage. Wiping the oil on her hands off onto her overalls, she picks up the final piece of machinery, beaming with pride. After six months of planning and finding parts and building, it all comes down to this moment. She walks back to the car and sits in the driver’s seat. She places the piece of machinery on the dashboard and ties her long blonde hair into a messy bun. She hates it when her hair gets in the way. She

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