The Story
Beth is a young girl who has just moved house with her mum, dad and her bossy, pink-haired, punk rocker big sister, whom she does not get on with.
She is feeling sad at having to leave behind all her friends and everything that is familiar to her, to start again in a new school where she doesn’t know anyone. Beth’s bad mood is made worse by the fact that she has just been told off for riding her bike through the flowerbed, leaving deep tyre tracks in the ground. She then accidentally breaks her dad’s rocking chair. In temper she picks up a ball of wool and throws it out of the window where it lands amongst the flowers.
Beth’s parents are very cross with her and leave her with a list of chores to do while they pop to the shop. Her annoying big sister just laughs at her and makes fun of her, so Beth takes herself out into the garden, putting her dad’s magnifying glass in her pocket as she goes.
It is while she is sitting on the swing feeling sorry for herself that she hears a voice talking to her from the flowerbed and an amazing adventure begins...........