Annabelle Sami - Llama Out Loud!

First published in Great Britain in 2020

by Egmont Books UK Limited

2 Minster Court, London EC3R 7BB

Text copyright © 2020 Annabelle Sami

Illustrations © 2020 Allen Fatimaharan

The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted

ISBN 978 1 4052 9699 1

eBook ISBN 978 1 4052 9700 4

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

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To my very own loud and loving family:

Mum, Dad and Chloe. This book would

not exist without you. Love you.

Contents

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Title Page

Copyright First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Egmont Books UK Limited 2 Minster Court, London EC3R 7BB Text copyright © 2020 Annabelle Sami Illustrations © 2020 Allen Fatimaharan The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted ISBN 978 1 4052 9699 1 eBook ISBN 978 1 4052 9700 4 A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library www.egmontbooks.co.uk All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Stay safe online. Any website addresses listed in this book are correct at the time of going to print. However, Egmont is not responsible for content hosted by third parties. Please be aware that online content can be subject to change and websites can contain content that is unsuitable for children. We advise that all children are supervised when using the internet.

Dedication To my very own loud and loving family: Mum, Dad and Chloe. This book would not exist without you. Love you.

CHAPTER ONE:Unbelieeeeeevable! There are some stories that are hard to believe. If you’re smart (which I can already tell you are, dear reader) then you won’t believe everything you’re told. For instance, I’ve never trusted fairy tales. I mean, come on. Do they expect us to believe that you can survive being eaten by a wolf? I’m also pretty sure that a house made of gingerbread would melt in the rain, or at least attract a few flies. Since you’re clever, I’m sure you’ve always questioned those horror stories about kids that lost all their teeth eating too many sweets. Maybe you’ve watched a film and annoyed your friends by saying, ‘That would never happen in real life!’ Well, I’ll be honest with you. This story is hard to believe. But unlike a fairy tale, it doesn’t take place in a faraway kingdom. Instead, we’ll be travelling to the streets of Whitechapel in East London – a place you might hear the locals call ‘The Ends’ – where you can buy a samosa for a pound or a rainbow-coloured bagel from the many street vendors on Brick Lane. People from all around the world live under this one postcode, and even more come to visit on Sundays when the market is in full swing. It’s a small corner of London, but there’s a whole world inside it. And, despite what you might be thinking, the hero of our story isn’t some cockney geezer. It’s a girl – Yasmin. Oh, and a llama. A toy one, of course, not a real one. That would be weird. By now you must be thinking, that does sound unbelievable! I know. But believe me. It’s real. P.S. There’s one more thing you should know about Yasmin. You see, her parents haven’t stopped talking since 1991 and her brothers might as well be in training for the Most Annoying event at the Olympics. Not to mention Yasmin’s aunties, who always think they know best. Of course, Yasmin still loves them, but all the hubbub results in Yasmin making a very particular choice. A choice she upholds even to this day . . . Actually – I can’t be bothered to do a flashback yet. Let’s just get to the story, hey? I’m sure you’ll find out what you need to know soon enough. So where were we . . .? Oh yes. (Cue dramatic music.) Life as Yasmin had known it, for a whole nine years and 363 days, was about to change. Forever.

CHAPTER TWO:Bargain Hunt

CHAPTER THREE:No Ordinary (Birth)day

CHAPTER FOUR:Feeding Time in the Lion’s Den

CHAPTER FIVE:Careful What You Wish For

CHAPTER SIX:It’s Llama Time!

CHAPTER SEVEN:A School of Fish

CHAPTER EIGHT:One More Probllama

CHAPTER NINE:Secret Agent Yasmin

CHAPTER TEN:A Load of Rubbish

CHAPTER ELEVEN:The Comeback Llama

CHAPTER TWELVE:The Best Worst Day of the Week

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:Disgustingly Cute

CHAPTER FOURTEEN:The Octogenarians’ London Daycentre

CHAPTER FIFTEEN:Six Failures and a Discovery

CHAPTER SIXTEEN:Wormula Bumbula

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:A Fish for School

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:Something Fishy’s Going On . . .

CHAPTER NINETEEN:Levi Spills the Beans

CHAPTER TWENTY:Chaos, Thy Name is Llama

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE:The Golden (OLDie) Rules

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO:The Importance of Friends

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE:Yasmin calls the Shots

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR:Worse to Worserer

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE:Listen to Me!

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX:Yasmin to the Rescue!

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN:The Grand Checkers Tournament Final

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT:Your Local Community Llama

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There are some stories that are hard to believe. If you’re smart (which I can already tell you are, dear reader) then you won’t believe everything you’re told. For instance, I’ve never trusted fairy tales. I mean, come on. Do they expect us to believe that you can survive being eaten by a wolf? I’m also pretty sure that a house made of gingerbread would melt in the rain, or at least attract a few flies.