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GREEN GARDEN
stairs. Their house was quite old and tall and there were a lot of stairs up to her room, which had been an attic once. Mum yelled at her for going too fast, but Poppy loved the feeling of swinging round the banisters.
“Where’s the fire?” her mother muttered, looking up from some letters. Billy was flaked out beneath her chair, and Poppy could see that her mum was resting her feet on him – he didn’t mind. Then her mum’s eyes sharpened. “You haven’t set anything on fire, have you? I can smell something funny...”
“It’s mint and basil, Mum. It’s helping me concentrate, and I blew the candle out before I came down.” Poppy rolled her eyes. “Please can I borrow your gardening book? The fruit and vegetable one? It’s for school – there’s a competition to design a school garden. If we win, we get a TV programme made about us!”
“And you want to grow vegetables?” her mum asked, sounding a bit doubtful as she handed over the book from the shelf by the fridge.
Poppy shook her head. “Not really. I want to read the herbs bit. I found a picture of a medieval herb garden, and I thought I could do an updated one... Oooh, Mum! This book’s by Cam Morris! He’s the
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