School inspectors are coming to Hopswood Junior so everyone is helping to tidy up. Anna-Louise has to clean out the hamster cage and she puts the hamster down on the head teacher's chair for safekeeping. The hamster burrows into the stuffing and the chair is taken away to be re-covered. Luke has to help get the hamster back - which means smuggling the chair out of school. The police are called and, in the confusion, Anna Louise's mother is arrested. Even worse is that Luke has to sacrifice his precious football banner to recover the chair seat. The head teacher gets a shock at assembly, but at least the hamster has been rescued.

 

This book is part of a book series called Young Puffin .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Elizabeth Hawkins teaches creative writing at the City Institute. She has written books for children of all ages. The Hamster stories are her first titles for Puffin. Elizabeth lives in North London. Ben Cort lives in London. He is the illustrator of SMOKY DRAGONS and UNDER THE BED. PIGS CAN'T FLYI is the first Little Tiger Press title he has both written and illustrated.