The Girl Who Didn't Know What To Believe

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hard you could imagine their heads might explode from the sheer effort - about the meaning of life. “It’s only polite,” he would say, “to see what has come out of the heads of people who have thought so hard!” It seemed to Meritxell that he was taking their heads apart just as he might do with a pocket watch, spreading their thoughts on the table and trying to fit them all back in again. Meritxell’s other best friend was her Grandpa’s dog, Hume. Hume was very hairy, very black, and loved everything and everyone so much he would rush from one thing to the next, sniffing it, wagging his tail, and snuffling happily to himself. His eyes, when you could see them through all the black hair, were an even deeper black. It might not surprise you that Grandpa had named him after a philosopher, and when Meritxell asked why he was called Hume, Grandpa would say, “Well he’s a dog, and can you imagine calling out ‘Xenophanes’ every time he runs off?” “<strong>What</strong>’s more, Meri,” he would add, as if her name was far too long too, “he’s a Scottish dog, so should have a Scottish name”, and that would be the end of the matter. Oh, and you could say that her third best friend - though I’m really not sure if things can be friends - was her pocket computer. She pretended it was a wizard’s mirror into the rest of the world, and she called it Merlin, in honour of the wizard in one of her favourite books. She could sit at home, or on the pile of rocks on top of the hill, and talk to her school friends on Merlin, or play chess with someone in another country, or watch her favourite programmes, or post her photos on Instagram. And that, I’m sure you’ll agree, is a little bit like magic! So Meritxell’s life seemed almost perfect. Her house 8
was on the edge of the town, with houses and shops and schools in one direction, and fields and trees and hills in the other. She would have breakfast with her Mother and Grandpa, walk to school, and after school she and Grandpa would take Hume out for a run through the woods and along by the river. <strong>The</strong>n she would sit and do her homework, and learn everything she was told to, and text her school friends to find out what they were doing. And at weekends she would help her Mother at home, except on Saturday afternoons, when she would serve tea and cakes in the Tea Shop. She looked after everyone there, and loved to see them relaxed and happy. But if that was all this book was about, it might be very short, and even a little dull, because though we like to be happy, we don’t seem to really want to read about other people being happy. This book is about something that happened, and about an adventure that this led to. And it was an adventure that would change Meritxell, and maybe others too, but we’ll have to wait and see about that. 9
Page 1: THE GIRL WHO DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO
Page 4 and 5: Introducing Meritxell
Page 6 and 7: she wanted herself. Imagine if ever
Page 10 and 11: Sunday Meritxell’s world turns up
Page 12 and 13: as she did, he took a breath and sa
Page 14 and 15: gether on Saturday mornings after d
Page 16 and 17: Monday Meritxell feels lost in spac
Page 18 and 19: “Hume, I think you are the only p
Page 20 and 21: not supposed to ask anything, only
Page 22 and 23: they talked about space missions, w
Page 24 and 25: y fairies, and she had watched a ne
Page 26 and 27: dered. Just as she believed she’d
Page 28 and 29: Tuesday Meritxell meets some scient
Page 30 and 31: in general, and Mothers in particul
Page 32 and 33: lent until then, but just as watchf
Page 34 and 35: thinking everything was made partly
Page 36 and 37: met in a long time. The fields soon
Page 38 and 39: Wednesday Meritxell and global warm
Page 40 and 41: lot you have to think about!”, an
Page 42 and 43: said, “Don’t you watch the news
Page 44 and 45: lly dangerous work, and that means
Page 46 and 47: After tea, Meritxell took Hume for
Page 48 and 49: when they’re the right age, they
Page 50 and 51: Thursday Meritxell discovers superf
Page 52 and 53: the solution lay in changing what s
Page 54 and 55: fruit are excellent. If you want en
Page 56 and 57: The colours, the shapes, the textur
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Friday Meritxell and the media 58
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and told her she was really really
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ght, journalists have the key to th
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do any sport. Actually, I can’t.
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says a journalist should do. But do
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seemed so unreal and separate from
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The grip of the earth was becoming
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Saturday Meritxell goes back home 7
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getting used to her questions, and
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all believed different things, and
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sounds as if you were fine, with cl
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