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“I saw the sign!” whispered Lucy. “I didn’t

            make any noise.”


               “It’s okay,” said Poppy. “We don’t need to

            whisper in here. It’s going to be a boring


            school holiday though if we have to spend

            the whole of it being quiet. The Den is


            supposed to be fun.”

               Poppy was right. The idea had been to


            make The Den a fun place for everyone for

            the school holidays. And most fun things


            aren’t quiet are they?

               Tom had been thinking. Tom was brilliant

            at thinking. Everyone said that Tom’s brain


            worked in a good way for thinking. He was

            good at working things out and he always








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