Annie's Game
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This issue’s cover is from J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third book in what is already a classic new series. The first two titles were Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children’s Books for their help. Cover image based on original artwork by Cliff Wright
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Annie's Game
Jack, 11, and his sister Annie, 5, live with their mother. Jack only vaguely remembers his saxophonist father who left for the USA soon after Annie was born. In itself, this situation creates tensions within the family. The mother works hard to make ends meet and Jack has taken on a supportive role, shielding his mother from disturbing incidents related to Annie. Annie is no ordinary little girl; ferociously intelligent, she cannot relate to children her own age and her friend, the mysteriously invisible Sarah Slade from the 25th century provides a compensation for her lack of peer companionship.
Matters reach crisis point when the children’s father unexpectedly telephones from the States urging the family to visit him. Dhami brings a light touch to the seriousness of the issues thrown up in this novel and to its resolution when Jack realises that neither the past nor the future can be shaped by one individual.
