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Jake's Tower

by Elizabeth Laird

`It`s good that I`ve found this secret place. I can come here and make plans. My main plan for the future is my dream house. It`s very tall and thin. A tower really. There`ll be a lift to whiz me up to the top. No one can get to me up there. It`s totally safe. ` In real life, Jake is never safe. He lives in constant fear of his mother`s violent boyfriend. But in his imaginary tower he can dream up his own father - the stranger who gave him a cuddle and a fluffy duck the day he was born and went away for ever. Jake doesn`t believe dreams ever come true. But sometimes they do - in strange and surprising ways.

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