Secrets!: The Secret Life of David Mortimore Baxter
by Karen Tayleur

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Whether David Mortimore Baxter is telling lies or the absolute truth, he seems to be a magnet for disaster. You'd be surprised how much trouble one boy can get into.

"Okay, I didn't ask Smashing Smorgon to tell me his secret. But he did anyway. Then he blabbed to the whole world that I could keep a secret. Suddenly everyone wanted to offload their secrets on me. But there was one secret that might just blow my family apart. And time was running out..."

Whether David Mortimore Baxter is telling lies or the truth, he seems to be a magnet for disaster. You'd be surprised how much trouble one boy can get into.


  • Middle fiction
  • ISBN 9781921167775
  • World ex ANZ & US rights available

Reviews

Appropriately paced for upper-primary students... those not aquainted with the other titles in this series can easily access the characters and story, and will enjoy following David’s adventures
— Bookseller+Publisher

These books will appeal to reluctant readers... to be read eagerly by junior readers both boys and girls.
— Reading Time


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