The Shadow and the Mobile Phone
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"We have still time if you would like to see my home." Leahcim turned to him all smiles. "It's not far. Just up the road a bit."
"Cool,"Frank replied.
"You mightn't think it so cool when you see it." Leahcim laughed.
He wasn't wrong.
Frank's face fell as soon as he entered Leahcim's home. "Where's the television?" he exclaimed. "And you have only one stupid looking chair."
Leahcim just shrugged his shoulders and went to sit as usual on a tuft of grass in the corner leaving the wicker chair for Frank if he wanted to sit down. He didn't. One look around was enough for him as the only other furniture was a bed which closed into the wall during the day and the only window was in the roof. Frank looked from the window to the door.
Leahcim watched him the whole time. "I leave the door open most of the time," he said. "There's zero crime here."
Frank wasn't surprised. There's zero stuff here too, he thought. But his curiosity was getting the better of him and he really wanted to know more about this so not cool home.
"Where do you keep your clothes?" and then, his face colouring slightly, he stuttered, "and.....and where do you go?"
"Oh that." Leahcim wasn't a bit embarrassed. "We don't go. We don't eat and to be honest we don't wash."
"You don't wash?" Frank squealed. "Yuck!" He was thinking he wasn't too excited about washing either but it had to be done or else you would have no friends. He made a face. "You're gross."
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About the Book
Frank doesn't consider himself to be a thief. He likes to think that his habit of finding things and keeping them in a box under his bed, is a sort of finder's keepers game.
But then one day he finds a mobile phone. This is no ordinary phone. This is evidence in the case of the children who have disappeared and some people will do anything to get their hands on it.
Who is the dark shadow lurking behind the wardrobe? And who takes Frank away in the middle of the night to a strange courtroom where the jury is kids out of his class. Then again who spirits away his sister Rosie in a peculiar flying machine? And what sinister experiment is going on in the laboratory on the island?
Between being left on the island with a weird woman and even weirder kids, driving a speed boat and being chased by a man with a gun, life for Frank and Rosie is certainly not boring. Life threatening – you better believe it. But boring – no way!
About the Author
Evelyn McGaughey lives in County Antrim on the shores of Lough Neagh. Apart from a few exceptions she mostly reads children's books. She has two hobbies. One is collecting dolls from around the world and the other is boating with her husband Angus, frequently visiting Rams Island, the setting for much of this story.