The Floods #3: Witch Friend
Chapter One
When Betty Flood was born, there wasn't a single child the same age as her anywhere on Acacia Avenue. There were some older girls who went past her house each day on their way to school, and there was a strange boy at number 27 who should have gone to school but didn't because his even stranger parents decided they could teach him everything he would ever want to know themselves. Which they couldn't—#8212;though the strange boy, Nautilus, did know much more about earthworms than anyone else in the town, apart from his father, who obviously knew a bit more because he had taught Nautilus. Nautilus also knew an amazing amount of stuff about slugs, which his mother had taught him, but he didn't know how to cover them in chocolate and turn them into delicious snacks like Betty and her mother, Mordonna, did.
Nor did Betty have any cousins to play with. In fact, she didn't even know if she had any cousins. Her mother said Betty had an Aunt Howler back in Transylvania Waters, but Mordonna thought it very unlikely that Howler had married. If she did have children they probably wouldn't be the ... read full excerpt from: The Floods #3: Witch Friend ebook
