Sebby, Stee, The Garbos and Me
Jane Godwin
Puffin Books, 1998

Christmas Day is a shocker.
It starts out with Jim making me wear my clothes to bed so we can sneak out and steal the beer that is left out for the garbos, and it all goes wrong when my duck Sebby starts to quack loud enough to wake the dead!

 

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St Hildas, WA
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Area 11 Rostrata

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Why does Jim think it would be a fun thing to steal all the beer left for the garbos for Christmas?

 

We think Jim thinks it would be a fun thing to steal all the beer left out = for the garbos so they could have beer when they are older at parties. 
St Hildas, WA
Jim thinks that it would be a fun thing to steal all the beer because he wanted to see whether the garbos would really throw people's rubbish all over the nature strip and he wanted to save the beer until he was old enough to have a party where people drink beer. Chisholm Chocolate Rappers, ACT
They were going to use it for the next party. 
Area 11 Rostrata
We think Jim thinks it would be fun because he wanted to see if what Danny had told him was true. He wants to find out in the garbage will be tipped onto the nature strip if there isn't any beer left out for the garbo's. Also, Jim wanted to steal the beer so that they could use the beer for a party. 
St. Schol's Blue Rappers
Why did the boys begin to run when the garbo truck turned the corner?
We think they began to run because they didn't wan't the garbos to know = they stole the beer.
St Hildas, WA
The garbos spotted them stealing the beer. We think they may have scared of
getting caught.
St. Schol's Blue Rappers
The boys began to run when the garbo truck turned the corner because they had stolen the garbo's beer and they were terrified that if they were caught the garbo's would "kill them". 
Area 11 Rostrata
We think that the boys began to run when the truck turned the corner because they didn't want anyone to see them with the beer in their arms.
Chisholm Chocolate Rappers
Why did Stee put Sebby in the bin?
Danny took Sebby out of Mike's hands and put him in the bin and closed the lid so the garbos wouldn't track them and they did not want to wake the street. 
St. Schol's Blue Rappers
We think Jim put Sebby in the bin because it was impossible to run with Sebby quacking and struggling under their arms. Danny was really upset when Jim put him in the bin. 
St Hildas Rappers
Stee put Sebby in the bin so that it would make it easier for Mike to run faster from the garbos and they wouldn't get caught. They couldn't hide with a quacking duck. 
Chisholm Chocolate Rappers
 
Why did Mikey refuse to help Danny and Jim put the beer in Danny's shed?
We think Mikey was worried that the Garbos were waiting in the shed to catch them 
because they stole the beer
St Hildas, WA
Sebby helped Mikey find the duck. Mikey didn't want people to tell him what to do 
so he didn't get the beer from the shed.
St. Schol's Blue Rappers
Mickey thought of Stee and how she doesn't do anything when she doesn't want to. He didn't want to because Jim and Danny put Sebby in the bin and Mickey doesn't want to lose him again. He is happy to have Sebby back.
Chisholm Chocolate Rappers. 
 

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Palmerston District Primary School
Palmerston A.C.T.   Australia
July 2001