Far from Home – School Journal Level 4 November 2020

The rest of the kids were playing hopscotch or tag with their friends. No one bothered to pay any attention to the figure hunched in the pōhutukawa tree. Occasionally, a pair of curious eyes would skim over the new girl, but no one invited her to play with them – or even said hi. Despite how thick-skinned Maddison appeared to be, after a month of this frosty behaviour, she felt hurt. 2020 WINNER of the Elsie Locke Writing Prize.