ISBN: 1408163497 9781408163498

Category: Juvenile Fiction / General

Page count: 80

Nine-year-old Michael is coming from London to Trinidad to visit his<br>grandmother, who is recovering from a difficult operation, and his<br>ten-year-old cousin, Shayla. A fierce rivalry develops between the two<br>children and everything becomes a competition - who can eat the hottest<br>food, climb the tallest tree, tell the spookiest story. Michael wins<br>each time and Shayla confesses to her mum that she feels Michael's life<br>is much more exciting than hers in Arouca. She thought she was special,<br>but everything she can do, Michael can do so much better. Luckily<br>Shayla's mum has a plan that will make Shayla realise her own good<br>qualities, and for cheering up her poor old granny in the process...<br><br><i>Granny Ting Ting </i>is a contemporary story set in Trinidad.