Scarlett
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Scarlett sat on the toilet seat in the plaza and waited for the pee to come. Then she looked down and saw the handle of the next door lady’s bag poking out under the dividing wall. She just managed to stop the pee before it began. She pulled up her jeans, bent down and switched the bag out from under the wall.
In a mere second, she had undone the lock and was out and walking down the cement hall to the centre of the plaza, making herself look casual - as if she wasn’t in a big hurry. She could see a man watching her, someone who looked exactly like her father. But why would he be here? Well, he lived here, she supposed.
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About the Book
Scarlett has become daring and has left her home. She becomes involved in some rather dangerous activities and then hops on a scooter behind a boy she doesn’t know. He takes her to the basement of a warehouse she has never seen where there are some doubtful looking adolescents, one of whom she knows and also knows that that girl hates her parents. Pretty soon, police arrive and poor Scarlet has to go to a police station for questioning. She has to find somewhere to sleep and then has to attend a court hearing. After visiting her Indigenous friend on a city street she finds she still has to have somewhere to sleep so accepts the scooter boy’s invitation to go back to his parent’s place. This proves unsatisfactory and Scarlett spends the next night on the footpath but after that gets the train to her own suburb where she find a friendly homeless woman she knows. This woman is helpful. Once in her own suburb Scarlett is better off and goes to Centrelink; thereafter she finds the patch where her parents used to sleep and takes up lodging there. Due to the help of good friends, she begins to have much better luck and she enrolls in an Aged Care course things. From here on the story is a secret.
About the Author
Janet Roberts is an educate woman who has written and published a number of books This one is her favourite. In her present life, in Melbourne, Australia, she meets many homeless people on the main street of her own suburb and in the city and gets to know their stories. One of these is an Indigenous girl who does pavement drawings in the city but this girl proves hard to know. However, Janet learns the story of one very interesting and clever girl and this story is about her. Janet writes because she loves writing and particularly likes the homeless people she meets and whose stories impress her so much with the braveness and resilience the homeless people show.