ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to everyone at HarperCollins for their continued advice and support, and a special thanks to Jenny Grigg whose original designs make the text come alive.

Thanks to my Ethics teacher, Marianne Hale, for her passion and for broadening my view of the world.

Love to Cousin Thomas for continually providing me with new material simply by being himself, and to Auntie Ida for our regular and therapeutic gossip sesssions.

Thanks to Muffy-Boo for being a substitute sibling as well as my luck-dragon.

Thanks to special friends: Nathaniel Hiscock, Miffy Thewlis, Julian Lynch and Emma Bates for accepting me ‘warts and all’.

Lastly, thanks must go to all the young readers I have met for their support and enthusiasm. They have provided me with the incentive to keep writing.