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Chapter Twenty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)

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Book Report (#litres_trial_promo)

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Books by Adam Baron (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

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Here’s something you won’t believe.

Veronique Chang did NOT get a Distinction in her Grade 5 piano. In fact, she only just passed! Why should you be surprised? Well. This is Veronique we’re talking about – our class genius. Answers LOVE her! They seem to float down to her from the ceiling before they get to anyone else (Marcus Breen calls her Siri). It was her birthday last month and I asked her what she wanted.

‘War and Peace,’ she said, and I frowned at her.

‘Greedy.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Well, you can’t have both,’ I said. ‘And anyway, I’m not the prime minister, how am I supposed to organise either?’

Veronique looked at me. ‘It’s a book. By Tolstoy?’

‘Oh,’ I said. ‘Bet it’s not as good as Mr Gum, though.’

And when I found a copy later in the Blackheath Bookshop I realised that it certainly wasn’t.

As for music, Veronique is INCREDIBLE. When she did her Grade 4, Mrs Johnson (our last head teacher) made her stand up in assembly. Veronique, she announced, had got the highest mark in the whole COUNTRY. Veronique wasn’t even surprised.

‘I was lucky,’ she said, looking down at me with a shrug. ‘My glissando was off.’

I was about to ask what she meant but Mrs Johnson made her go up to play one of her pieces. Wolfman Amadeus … Gocart (I think). And wow! The only time I’ve seen fingers move as fast was when Lance brought in a bag of Haribos on his birthday.

Marcus Breen started clapping at one point, but that was actually a quiet bit and Veronique went on some more. When she did finish, I stared at her.

‘Amazing,’ I said. ‘If also quite boring.’