A Piglet Called Truffle

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Jasmine's dad is a farmer, and her mum is a large-animal vet, so Jasmine spends a lot of time caring for animals and keeping them out of trouble. Unfortunately, this often means she gets into hot water herself... In this first in the series, Jasmine rescues a tiny piglet from certain death. But Jasmine's parents don't believe in farm animals being pets and insist that Truffle must be sold as soon as he's big enough. So Jasmine begins a campaign to keep him - one that doesn't seem to be going very well as Truffle gets older and ever-closer to market... In the end, it takes two lost guinea pigs and one cold, frosty, nighttime adventure to save Truffle's bacon...

Helen Peters grew up on an old-fashioned farm in Sussex, surrounded by family, animals and mud. She spent most of her childhood reading stories and putting on plays in a tumbledown shed that she and her friends turned into a theatre. After university, she became an English and Drama teacher. Helen lives with her husband and children in London, and she can hardly believe that she now gets to call herself a writer.