Inside, Outside, Upside Down
by Nan Gabinet

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Mandy lives on a hobby farm, where a lot of chores need to be done. She usually helps her mom, but she does not like to work. She dreams of living in a world where she never has to do chores. One night, after a fight with her mom, Mandy sneaks out her bedroom window and follows two glowing wolves into the forest. Once there, she meets a Peepal, a funny dwarf who leads her to his underground home. The Peepal never work. They just have fun and eat only dessert and sweet treats. Mandy thinks this is the perfect life! Then she realizes that the Peepal have enslaved some forest creatures to do all the work for them. The Peepal king has decided to trap and enslave Mandy as well. Will Mandy become a slave to the Peepal? That would be worse than doing her chores at home! How can she escape?

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"and what is the use of a Book? thought Alice, without pictures or conversation." Lewis Carroll

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Nan Gabinet has been a writer since she learned cursive in Grade 4. She is an artist, creating with acrylic paints, pencil crayon, and watercolour. She enjoys reading, gardening, kayaking, and travelling. Nan lives in Parksville on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with her ten-year-old cat Dexter.

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