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Step Into the Story
One Summer in Your Shoes starts with a fight between two groups of school boys, at a local park. One school is the local academy, the other the grammar school. They have just broken up from school for the summer, and have gone to the park to play football.
Two boys, Joe and Charles, with magic created by a Goblin, Minx, swap bodies, and for a month experience what it is like to live a completely different life from their own. Joe is from a single parent family, living in social housing. Charles has working parents, a housekeeper, gated house, and doesn’t want for anything.
About the Book
Meet the Characters
Step inside the world of One Summer in Your Shoes and get to know the people who make it unforgettable.
Boggart
A boggart is a mischevious or malevolent creature, historically associated with a specific location, such as a house, marsh or bog, and known for causing trouble.
Joe
Joe is the younger brother of Maggie and son of Josie, a single mother. He doesn’t know who his father is.
Life isn’t easy for them as a family, but they are close.
Charles
He experiences what most teenagers face, spending time on his own in his bedroom, playing computer games.
Minx
Minx is a female goblin. She lives in a tree house, near the park in Melby. Prior to this she lived in the Keep, but grew tired of the other Goblins because they stopped performing magic and tricks and wanted to become nice (Godlins).
About the Author
Meet Laura Latimerr
I lived and worked in the East End of London as a teacher, seeing hardship in some of my pupils’ lives, and affluence in others. One summer I worked on a playscheme in a park for local children whose parents were working, or not able to afford a holiday. One day a gang from over the river came and caused trouble. We had to call the police.
I think these experiences influenced the opening of the book.
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