New Neighbours

"Goodness me, dear!" said Alice's mother when Alice told her what she
thought. "The neighbours look perfectly ordinary to me. I think you've been
reading too many mystery books. Your imagination's gone wild!"

I read "New Neighbours" for the first time. This story is strange. The picture is strange so it is black-and-white. Heroine's Alice liked the look of the new neighbours and she did like reading mystery books, and watching mysteries on TV and at the movies. So, new neighbours' house was something very odd about them, something not quite right. She shuddered to think something not quite human. But, Alice watched the neighbours move in from her bedroom window, she thought she saw one of the men carrying a body wrapped in a blanket. And, she was sure she saw an arm drop out from under one side of the blanket. One day, Alice went outside and, when she was sure no one would see her, she jumped into the neighbours' yard and she pushed window which it up and climbed inside. Alice wandered down the hall, looking from room to room. Then, she stopped at the living room door, looked in and froze. Because, the front door burst open, and four of the new neighbours stood there. So, they are puppeteers, and they are using this place as their workshop. They are making some new giant puppets for our next show. Therefore, there were some legs under the sofa and an arm on the chair. So, this story is very strange but it is interested for me.

New Neighbours, ISBN-13: 978-0-17-012671-7 (2.3points)

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