CHAPTER ONE
EAST FREMANTLE PRIMARY SCHOOL MONDAY
9.05 am
‘Did you go to the MCG?’
‘Yeah!’ Dylan says. ‘We saw the Carlton–Melbourne game.’
‘No way!’ I squeal.
I stare at my best friend in amazement.
I’m so jealous I can hardly breathe! I mean, it’s only one of my biggest dreams in the WORLD to go to Melbourne one day and watch a game at the actual Melbourne Cricket Ground, the place where AFL football began!
Dylan grins. ‘Yeah, it was awesome.’
It’s day one of term two and the whole school has gathered in the hall for our first assembly. Three hundred students are all sitting cross-legged on the cold hardwood floor waiting for it to begin, and the noise echoes around the hall and bounces off the walls. It sounds like Subiaco Oval on game day in here! The preps are definitely the loudest. I can hear them all the way from the back of the hall where us Grade Sixers always sit.



















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