Ned Wilkes Aged 7 (Dob 26.08.13)
The Day of the Driller 1 The Subway caves in One morning, Shinoy woke up. It was Monday, and he had had a late night watching films. He couldn’t even open his eyes! They felt glued shut. In fact, they were so glued that he couldn’t see the newspaper headline that his Dad was packing to deliver. “SUBWAY CAVES IN’’ it said. “Look at this, Shinoy” his Dad said. “The subway has caved in.” Shinoy looked at his father in utter shock. “How?” he asked. “They say that there was a thunderstorm, but I’m not sure,” Dad replied. Shinoy suddenly felt much more awake. He would catch up with Toby and solve the mystery. Mum looked at Shinoy and said, “I thought you would be tired!’’ Shinoy thought he would respond to this by saying something like “Well I’m fine actually Mum, so you should probably let me stay up that late every night!” but he decided to do that another day. Besides, there was something going on and he was going to find out. Later that day he and Toby caught up together and Shinoy told him the story. “Maybe, there were
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