Chapter 37: As Simon Cowell says
Chapter 39: Definitely sarcastically
Chapter 41: Like when you run at some sheep
Chapter 42: Calm as a cucumber
Chapter 43: The Eagle and the Squirrel
Chapter 46: Does it still work if it gets wet?
Chapter 47: Exactly the opposite
Chapter 48: A nice-looking restaurant
Chapter 49: Mobilcon XR-207. Located
Chapter 50: The sort of thing they say in old films
Chapter 51: If possible, make a U-turn
Chapter 52: One hundred and ninety-two and a half miles
Chapter 53: And I’ll take the low road
Chapter 57: Sort of like a friend
Chapter 58: Like a proper big brother
Chapter 59: A strange decision
Chapter 61: Baked-bean-flavour crisps
Chapter 62: Until she absolutely has to
Chapter 67: A dodgem car by the sea
Chapter 68: “Was that sarcastic?”
Chapter 71: The biggest present ever
Chapter 72: Where would you like to go today?
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Amy Taylor loved cars. Here are her favourite ones:
1. The Aston Martin DB5. This is the one James Bond drives. Amy just loved the look of this one. Although as with all old cars (classic cars, as people in the know – like Amy – call them) if she had one she would get someone to remake it with an electric engine, so that it wasn’t bad for the planet. Maybe with the help of her friend Rahul, who was an inventor. Of sorts.
2. The Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing. This was another classic car. But it had doors that instead of opening normally came up like wings, making the whole car look like it could fly. It couldn’t.
3. The Jaguar E-Type, which was also an old car, but she liked the new one, called the Zero, which was actually electric. It was just as beautiful as the old car, and Amy thought it was very clever that the car had always been called the E-Type, even before there was an electric version.
4. The Ford Transit Van. Well, a Ford Transit van. Her mum’s white battered seven-year-old one.
Amy’s love for cars might seem unusual. Not because she was a girl – lots of girls like cars and lots of boys don’t – but because she had been in a really bad car accident when she was eight years old. Which also meant that since then – she was now eleven – she had needed to use a wheelchair.
Amy’s accident was also why the Ford Transit van was on her