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- Publisher
- The Wishing Shelf Press
- Length
- ≈ 195 pages
- Reading time
- 5–7 hours
- ISBN
- 0957476787
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
Simon Spittle is convinced he has murdered his teacher, Miss Belcher. He carries no weapon, but in a French lesson he wished she would be run over by a bus, and later that same day she was: a red double-decker belonging to a circus.
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