The improbable life of Ricky Bird / Diane Connell.
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TextPublisher: Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 351 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781761101366Subject(s): Girls -- Fiction | Storytellers -- Fiction | Storytelling -- Fiction | Dysfunctional families -- Fiction | Single-parent families -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Humorous fiction. | Australian fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Ricky Bird loves making up stories for her little brother Ollie almost as much as she loves him. The imaginary worlds she creates are wild and whimsical places full of unlimited possibilities. Real life is another story. Ricky's father has abandoned them and the family has moved to a bleak new neighbourhood. Worse still, her mother's new boyfriend, Dan, has come with the furniture. But Ricky Bird is a force to be reckoned with. As the mastermind of so many outlandish advrntures, imagination is her best weapon. As her father used to say, if you can spin a good yarn you can get on in life. The trouble is that in the best stories characters sometimes take on a life of their own and no one, not even Ricky, is able to imagine the consequences.
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Ricky Bird loves making up stories for her little brother Ollie almost as much as she loves him. The imaginary worlds she creates are wild and whimsical places full of unlimited possibilities. Real life is another story. Ricky's father has abandoned them and the family has moved to a bleak new neighbourhood. Worse still, her mother's new boyfriend, Dan, has come with the furniture. But Ricky Bird is a force to be reckoned with. As the mastermind of so many outlandish advrntures, imagination is her best weapon. As her father used to say, if you can spin a good yarn you can get on in life. The trouble is that in the best stories characters sometimes take on a life of their own and no one, not even Ricky, is able to imagine the consequences.
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