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1 e-book (140 pages) Description based on print version record and online publisher description ISBN is the same as the print version Available in multiple formats Summary: Many have the memory of keeping a live creature they shouldn't -- a lizard in a shoe box, a mouse or even a stray dog -- but Jelly hides an angel in the tool shed at school, and there are consequences. It is Christmas Eve and Jelly, as sultry as the weather, is breaking rules by playing in the creek with her cousins behind her family's new house. The children find what looks like a half-drowned bird, but it is an angel, just a baby, and injured. Jelly decides they will keep it but complications multiply, seemingly linked to Jelly's scarcely thought through desires. Vivid and playful, but also scary. Although a fantasy, the writing is so realistic in the depiction of a typically imperfect family, a hot Australian summer and the illicit wonders an Australian creek always holds for children