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Index
Cover
Title
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Tom Jones and the Bottle Top Collection
Dead parents
Thomas
The house
A gated community
Arnold
Our old town
Barbara
Shock! Horror! Belly!
School
Class 6 W
Bribery
Time and motion
Money
Chapter Two: Grandpa Jones and the Funeral
Grandpa Jones
Shock! Horror! Drunk!
The Grandpa Jones list of things to do at a funeral
The moon and the stars
The deal
Chapter Three: Cleo and the Escape Plan
Cleo and the pinhead parents
Aunt Ruth and Uncle Robert
Cleo, the snake, and how to be instantly popular
Tom and the snake girl
Tom and Cleo
Cleo’s bright idea
The plan
Cleo’s house
Cleo, the archeologist
Friends in prison
Tom, the gardener
Tom
The escape hatch
The prison gates
Chapter Four: The First Day of Freedom
Escape
Cleo—snake-charmer, escape-expert, and Queen of the Nile
The right side of the fence
The phone call
Saturday—yabbies, bulls and being a carnivore
Lunch
Snob!
Chapter Five: The Gardens of Mercy
Outside the gates, okay
Mercy Gardens
Tom’s visit
Tom and Grandpa Jones
Chapter Six: Gobbledegook, And the History of Tom’s Family
Cleo
Gobbledegook
The history of Arnie and Grandpa Jones
Thick shakes
Uncle Robert, the pop-star
Chapter Seven: Cleo, the Genius
Cleo’s bright idea # 2
Tom, bottle tops, and Cleo the genius
Cleo’s letter
Long and loud
Tom’s bottle top collection
Exclusive?
Chapter Eight: Barbara, To the Rescue!
Mercy Gardens calls
Grandpa
Tom’s dream
Slow and steady
Barbara to the rescue
Two secrets
Tom
Whose letter?
The Treasure Chest of Mystery
Cleo’s letter #2
Chapter Nine: Tom Falls In Love ... with a Dictionary!
Cleo plan # 3
My love affair with the dictionary
Dinner with Dad
Rejoice (meaning “to celebrate, have fun, etc”)
Thomas extends his vocabulary
Cleo
Tom
Double gobbledegook?
A virus
After three days, a breakthrough?
Breakfast
Chapter Ten: Quivering Lips, Trembling Hands, Beating Hearts and Other Stuff
Grandpa and the bottle tops from China
Quivering lips, trembling hands, beating hearts and other stuff
Thursday afternoon
Cleo, and ladders
The parcel and the possiblilities
Dead parent wish #9, or not?
Cheating
Uncle Robert and Aunt Ruth at morning tea
Like riding a bike
Murchison Creek
Bulls, Hamburgers, and Dads
The reason there are so many dead parents in books
Almost caught
Two words for a moron
Chapter Eleven: Cleo’s Last and Absolutely Final Plan
Tree
Skimming stones
What is Dad saying?
Cleo’s last and absolutely final plan
Perfect
Uncle Robert’s surprise
Strangely normal
Chapter Twelve: The Time of His Life
Saturday
The time of his life
Lunch, and music
The music
Copyright
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