Silence is Goldfish by Annabel Pitcher - Starting September 14th 2016

[Sarah Elizabeth]

My name is Tess Turner - at least, that's what I've always been told.

I have a voice but it isn't mine. It used to say things so I'd fit in, to please my parents, to please my teachers. It used to tell the universe I was something I wasn't. It lied.

It never occurred to me that everyone else was lying too. But the words that really hurt weren't the lies: it was six hundred and seventeen words of truth that turned my world upside down.

Words scare me, the lies and the truth, so I decided to stop using them.

I am Pluto. Silent. Inaccessible. Billions of miles away from everything I thought I knew.

Tessie-T has never really felt she fitted in and after what she read that night on her father's blog she knows for certain that she never will. How she deals with her discovery makes an entirely riveting, heart-breaking story told through Tess's eyes as she tries to find her place in the world.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

up to 7% (view spoiler)[ well that wasn't the nicest thing for her to find out. I'd be well hacked off if my 'dad' painted my bedroom yellow instead of blue! (hide spoiler)]

[Abi]

This is a bit dull so far.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

27% (view spoiler)[ the goldfish torch is talking to her now? is she developing schizophrenia? (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Abbie wrote: "This is a bit dull so far."

It seems to take a long while for the not-talking to kick in.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

33% (view spoiler)[ she really is losing it. (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

40% (view spoiler)[ I think she's totally grasping at straws thinking that her maths teacher could be her father! (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

43% (view spoiler)[ her gran is funny! (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

44% (view spoiler)[ she's going to steal his wallet? that's crazy! (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

51% (view spoiler)[ she actually went to his house?! She's nuts! (hide spoiler)]

[Abi]

Sarah wrote: "44% [spoilers removed]"

Yep!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

60% (view spoiler)[ what is Anna up to? (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

67% (view spoiler)[ can't believe she chucked that letter in the bin! (hide spoiler)]