BR12: Billy and the Queen

"Two weeks later, Gran is thalking to her hnaighbour- Mrs Clark." (p15)

Billy Parker is fourteen. He has a sister. Her name is Roxanne. They stay at grandmother's house in Brighton. They find a old bicycle. They want a new bicycle. They ask their grandmother how to a lot of money to buy a new bicycle. She show them a magazine. It says "there is a competition here and the first prize is ￡500. Send us a photo of you and the Queen together." The next day they go to Brighton station to see the Queen. She is there. They want to take photos, but a very big man say 'No.' The next day they go to the Odeon cinema. The Queen is there. Roxanne take a photo, but the picture is Billy's right ear. The next day, Friday afterenonn they go to a new hospital to take a photo. But the Queen is sick so she can not come there. Roxanne has a idea! They go to Madame Tussaud's. There is the Queen's model. Roxanne take a photo Billy and the Queen is smile. A few weeks later they have two new bicycle.
I want to go to London when I read this book. The photo shows fales Queen. It is not good to send a untrue picture. But it is not easy for general people to take a photo of the Queen. So the magazine says give them ￡500 because they had confidence that no one could not take a photo. I think that the magazine is a sly. I suspected the naighbor, Mrs Clark is the Queen because her face and hair is like the Queen.

Stephen Rabley(1996). Billy and the Queen. Penguin Readers