Under the Bridge
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I decided to go and see Mum. I dropped into class and got my name ticked off and in Period 1 (I am in Year 8) I asked if I could go to the toilet - this is something they don’t like to say no to. I slinked down to the back oval and got out through a gap under the netting.
I found the old bridge with no trouble. It was dirtier and smellier than before – beer cans and bottles along the walls and a dark smell.
I found Mum – skinny and yellow and half asleep with a gone-out fag between her fingers.
“Hallo, Mum.”
“What?”
“It’s me, Scarlet, your daughter.”
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About the Book
Scarlett lives under a bridge with her mum and dad. Her Mum has some issues and Scarlett is involved in many interesting events, meeting many interesting people, in order to help her mum
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.