THE GUM LEAF WAR (an extract)

The park ranger looked out of the train _____________ and said, 'It's a hot summer. We'll have _________________this year for sure.'

No one in the ________________answered him. They were all too busy looking at me and my _____________. They weren't _____________straight at me. They were straining their ________________by trying to look at me out of the corner of their eyes. I didn't pay any attention to them. If they _________________to be sticky-beaks, that was their business and there was ______________I could do about it. I was used to people ______________at me but it still made me _______________. After all, I couldn't help it. I didn't ask to have the ________________nose in the world. It happened by _________________and it wasn't my fault.

THE PAW THING (an extract)

Mac walked over to the __________and opened it. Then he took out the black __________ and flipped over the pages. "Ah ha," he yelled. "Just as I ______________." He pointed a long, _______________ finger at Singenpoo. "You're the one. You're the one that gave them the recipe."

Singenpoo crouched down in the _____________. She was frightened by all the _____________.

Mac had flipped his lid. He thought the cat had been _________________his book. "Don't be silly," I said. "____________________can't read..."