For children: Controversial newcomer Mr Christaki becomes music tutor to a group of young friends

I’d better tell you why we are writing this story. Kai’s dad, Gordon, who writes things in the newspapers, writes books with his name on the covers and is quite famous, told us to write down everything that happened, and then tell it like a story. So here goes my bit.

I’ll start by explaining who we are.

First there’s Kai. He’s the cleverest of us Freezies. Kai’s got a whole collection of rap on his phone and computer – people like Stormzy and Westrnmusic. He writes rap too, and he’s good at school. He came first in science, and he even has a chemistry set. He says he’s learning Spanish from a teach-yourself book because his folks are planning to buy a house in Spain for vacations.

His dad is Jamaican, and his mum, Alexandra, is Polish. She doesn’t like his rap poems. She’s an actress in real plays at the Wilde Theatre in Salton. Kai acts too. They were both in Androcles and the Lion. Kai didn’t want to be in it, but she dragged him along.

Kai played Androcles, who helped a lion who had a thorn stuck in its foot, but it was a comedy, so the lion kept making jokes about...

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