NEW WORDS TO LEARN
- Curator (noun) keeper or custodian of a museum
- Plinth (noun) a heavy base supporting a statue or vase
- Quizzically (adverb) in a mildly puzzled manner
‘Bo-o-o-rrring!’ said Robbie, stretching the two-syllable word out as far as it would go. It filled the silence in the classroom and made Thuli, who was sitting beside him, imagine a train snaking its way up and down hills made of the letter ‘o’. She giggled.
‘Sh!’ hushed Estella from behind them. Estella, Thuli, Robbie and Tariq, who was doodling in his notebook next to Estella, were best friends. They had met on their first day of school and always sat together in class. Just one month
earlier, the four had had a combined eighth birthday [...]