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    Zillie the Circus Freak
    Zillie the Circus Freak
    Zillie the Circus Freak
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    Zillie the Circus Freak

    By Alley Bucci and Laura Wood

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    Ever heard the expression "life's a circus"? Well, for Zillie it literally is!

    Zillie isn't sure what she can expect from this town when her family rolls in and settles for their next circus season, but she's excited and full of anticipation on her first day of school at Brookevale College. Until her first run in with Princess Holly, that is. Perfect, poised, pouty, pretty, prissy Princess Holly, who makes it her mission to humiliate Zillie 'the circus freak' at every chance she gets.

    And she gets a few!

    Will Zillie survive the attack of a thousand wings?
    What on earth is her new friend Violet's space clearing spray?
    How does Bradley Peters, the spunkiest guy in class, even know she exists, let alone want her to be a friend?
    Why does Bradley like Zillie's zany family so much?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWoodslane Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2015
    ISBN9780994256577
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      Zillie the Circus Freak - Alley Bucci

      title1

      Life’s always a circus for Zillie.

      She isn’t sure what to expect from this town when her family rolls in for their next circus season, but she’s full of excited anticipation on her first day at Brookevale College - until her first run in with Holly.

      Perfect, poised, pouty, pretty, prissy Princess Holly, who makes it her mission to humiliate Zillie ‘the circus freak’ at every chance she gets … and she gets a few!

      title2horsetitle3head

      Zillie the Circus Freak

      First Published 2013 by JoJo Publishing

      This edition published by Woodslane Press 2018

      Text Copyright © Alley Bucci 2013

      Illustration Copyright © Laura Wood 2013

      No part of this printed or video publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher and copyright owner.

      National Library of Australia

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      Bucci, Alley.

      Zillie the circus freak / Allie Bucci.

      9780994256577 (eBook)

      For primary school age.

      A823.4

      Designer: Madacin Creative

      Editor: Riima Daher

      Digital Distribution: Ebook Alchemy

      eBook Conversion by Winking Billy

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      For you, the reader.

      May you all embrace your inner freak!

      And as always, for my own little circus; Sophia, Chiara and Lukas, who bring fun, craziness, joy, love and add colour to each day.

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      The second I saw my new room, a love-hate relationship was born. I loved the fact that finally, I no longer had to share four walls with my peculiar, geeky brother Zenny, but on the other hand, I resented the fact that a cardboard fruit box would have been bigger than this teeny space that was to be my room. Who would be so ridiculous as to cover these tiny walls in Christmas-themed wallpaper anyway? Who did my parents rent this matchbox of a house from? Mr and Mrs Claus? My thoughts were interrupted by piercing squeals of joy. I peeked my head into the next room and what do you know? King Geek was jumping on his very own double bed, excited by the plastering of colourful planets and rockets, stuck all over his bedroom walls. Once again, typically, Zenny had struck gold.

      What a beaut room hey Zil? We thought Zen might as well keep the bed because it doesn’t fit in your room, Mum chirped as she helped unpack Zenny’s clothes into his enormous wardrobe.

      "That’s because nothing would fit in my room. Maybe it was the elves’ room …" I muttered under my breath.

      What eight year old got that much space? He hardly needed it. He insisted on wearing the same outfit every day, had a pet ant (which he named, very imaginatively, ‘Ant’) that he kept in an old fish tank and he had a shoebox full of his prized collection of buttons. That’s all that he needed space for!

      Elves? What dear? Can you yell out to Dad and tell him to get Uncle Stan to tell Aunty Jan to park the caravan out the back? They’re blocking the street.

      As I walked outside, yep Mum was right, they had literally stopped the caravan in the middle of the road, so in the mere forty-two minutes that had gone past since the Crombies had

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