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    I Can't See You
    I Can't See You
    I Can't See You
    Ebook59 pages41 minutes

    I Can't See You

    By Emma Laybourn

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    "I can't see you!" said Oliver. "You're not there."
    All Reece wants is to make friends with Oliver; to be one of the cool crowd at his new school. But Oliver snubs him, pretending Reece is invisible.

    So Reece hits on an ingenious way of getting his revenge - a way that means nobody can pin any blame on him. It's working well, until things take an unexpected turn...

    A lively and thought-provoking book about friendships and families, for ages 9 and over.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmma Laybourn
    Release dateMar 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301671816
    I Can't See You
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    Emma Laybourn

    I'm a qualified teacher and librarian who has had seven children's books published in traditional form in the UK and USA. I've also had about sixty short stories published in British and Australian magazines.In 2012 I set up a child-friendly website, www.megamousebooks.com, to offer free children's stories, ebooks and printable puzzles. Five years later I created my second site, www.englishliteratureebooks.com, as a home for free abridged classic novels and classic poetry ebook collections. Keeping both sites going is proving a full-time job, but a very enjoyable one!

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    I Can't See You - Emma Laybourn

    I Can’t See You

    Emma Laybourn

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright 2013 Emma Laybourn

    Emma Laybourn’s website is at:

    www.megamousebooks.com

    Licence notes

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    Table of Contents

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Chapter Eight

    Chapter Nine

    Chapter Ten

    Chapter One

    OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

    wrote Miss Lewis on the whiteboard.

    Underneath it she added with a flourish,

    Make the person disappear!

    You may only use a pencil.

    Oliver immediately began waving his pencil round like a wand, until the teacher gave him a stern look.

    Oliver and Reece, get on, she said.

    Reece thought this was unfair. He was getting on. He was already busy drawing on his photocopied sheet of paper.

    The sheet had a face printed on it. All over the classroom, groups of children were scribbling with their pencils on their own, similar sheets. They weren’t allowed to draw on the faces, only round them. There was a lot of rubbing out and muffled grumbling, especially from Oliver.

    This is stupid, he complained. You can’t draw an optical illusion with a pencil. You need a computer.

    No, you don’t, said Reece, eager to impress him. I know how.

    This was the first time he had sat with Oliver’s group; although ever since he started at this school a month ago, he’d been wondering how to join it.

    Oliver’s table was cool. It was as cool as a fridge full of iced coffee. As cool as a skating-rink with champions gliding casually round it, hands behind their backs.

    The four boys at Oliver’s table were all on the football team. They had sharp haircuts and told witty jokes about the other children in the class. They ruled the roost in the playground.

    When one of them went off sick, Reece asked the teacher if he could take his place. So now he was sitting where he’d longed to be, with Oliver, Kai and Joel: the cool crowd.

    And he was determined to shine. To impress them. To show them that he had the right to be there.

    The classroom filled with muttering and rustling as everyone struggled to make an optical illusion. Abby had already given up and turned her sheet into a paper plane, which she aimed at Maya.

    Stop that! ordered Miss Lewis. This is not an aerodrome.

    It’s not a plane, said Abby. It’s a poison dart.

    Oliver drew, rubbed out, drew, rubbed out again. He looked fed up. Reece reached over and took Oliver’s sheet of paper off him.

    Hey, said Oliver.

    You’re not doing it right, said Reece. Do it like this. He began to draw swirly lines around the face.

    So what’s that meant to be?

    It’s like camouflage, said Reece. The face gets harder to pick out.

    No, it doesn’t, said Oliver.

    It does, insisted Reece.

    Miss Lewis, overhearing, turned to see. Well done, Reece! she said. You’ve got the right idea. Reece glowed.

    It’s not that great, said Oliver as Miss Lewis zoomed off again to scold Abby.

    You can still see the face, said Joel. It’s not invisible at all.

    It’s rubbish, grumbled Kai.

    "But look, it’s

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