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    The Raspberry Room
    The Raspberry Room
    The Raspberry Room
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    The Raspberry Room

    By Alison Lohans and Gillian Newland

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    In behind the raspberry bushes is a special place, a place Abby doesn't trust to just anyone. Then she looks through a knothole in the fence and right into a blue, blue eye. A toy tractor appears on her side of the fence and she pokes her little brother's stuffed blue monkey into the hole. The next morning she finds it with its tail ripped off. Who does the blue eye belong to?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateMar 1, 2006
    ISBN9781554697434
    The Raspberry Room
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    Alison Lohans

    Alison Lohans began making up stories when she was five, and knew at age nine that her calling was to be a writer. Born and raised in Reedley, California, she did her undergraduate work at Whittier College and California State University, Los Angeles. Soon afterwards, she immigrated to Canada in 1971 with her late husband. They spent five years in British Columbia (where her husband completed his Ph.D., and Alison earned her Postgraduate Diploma in Elementary Education while working as a pharmacy assistant). They then moved to Regina, Saskatchewan.Over the decades since Alison's first YA novel was published by Scholastic Canada in 1983, she has published 26 books for young people with Canadian and international presses. These books range from picture books, early chapter books, middle-grade novels, and on up to mature YA novels. Her YA novel This Land We Call Home (Pearson Education New Zealand, 2007) won the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Award for YA fiction, and many of her other books have been finalists for provincial, national, and international awards. Alison has done over a thousand readings of her works in schools and libraries across Canada, and still loves connecting with readers in this way.In addition to her books, Alison writes short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. For decades she longed to write contemporary romance, and finally gathered up the courage to give it a try. She has taught writing and mentored other writers; she's taught instrumental music; completed her M.Ed. degree; done a bit of editing; and served as Writer-in-Residence at Regina Public Library in 2002-03. She has also served on countless boards of arts groups at local, provincial and national levels. Alison was awarded the 2012 Regina YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for her contributions to the arts.Alison treasures her connections with her writing groups: the Children's Writers' Round Robin; the Saskatchewan Romance Writers; the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild; CANSCAIP; and The Writers' Union of Canada.For fun, she plays cello, cornet and recorder in community groups, has resumed piano lessons after a decades-long hiatus, and occasionally sings in choirs. International travel is very high on the list of things Alison loves doing - and in some instances, books have been sparked by visits to new places.Regina has been home to Alison since 1976, where she lives with her dog Sebastian and two finches.

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      Book preview

      The Raspberry Room - Alison Lohans

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      Chapter One

      The Hole in the Fence

      Abby looked back over her shoulder. Come! she called. Follow me!

      Her friend Laura was still on the swing. I’ll get dirty, she said.

      Raspberry leaves swished around Abby’s arms and legs. Playing in the raspberry patch was more fun than swinging. Come! she said again. I have something to show you!

      Maybe Laura didn’t hear. The raspberry patch was at one end of the yard. The swings were in the middle of the yard. The grass was in between. Laura kept on swinging.

      Abby kicked some dry leaves. Laura had been busy all week. At last she had time to play. But all Laura wanted to do was swing.

      Don’t you want to see it? Abby talked loudly, so Laura would be sure to hear. There’s a special little room! It’s by the fence.

      She had found the raspberry room two days ago. She had been jumping over a make-believe monster, when her sandal flew off and landed in the raspberry patch. Abby had searched through the make-believe jungle. And there it was! Her sandal was in a little room, right by the fence. The tall raspberry plants made green swishy walls. In the raspberry room, she couldn’t see the swings. She couldn’t even see the house.

      Right now Abby was standing at the edge of the raspberries. Here, the plants weren’t as tall.

      It was easy to see Laura. Laura was wearing her purple top and shorts. There were sparkly butterflies on her shirt.

      But Laura wasn’t looking at her. She leaned back in the swing. Her long shiny hair touched the grass. Her feet pointed straight out. I have to go soon,

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