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The Fire Eaters WALT: understand how to read and annotate texts at the same time. Section A: Reading 1 hour 21st Century prose-fiction It is an extract from the novel The Fire Eaters by David Almond published in 2003. It tells the story of

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The Fire Eaters WALT: understand how to read and annotate texts at the same time.<br>
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Section A: Reading 1 hour 21st Century prose-fiction

It is an extract from the novel The Fire Eaters by David Almond published in 2003.

It tells the story of a boy, Bobby Burns who grows up in a small coal mining town in Northumberland in the 1960s.<br>
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McNulty was a small, wild-eyed, bare-chested man. His skin was covered in scars and bruises. There were rough and faded tattoos of beasts and dragons. He had a little canvas sack on a long stick. His hair was black. He had pointed gold teeth at the front of his mouth and he wore tiny golden earrings. There were deep creases in his cheeks.
Mum held me against her.
‘Reach into my pocket,’ she said. ‘Find him a coin.’
I reached down and took out some silver. When I looked up again his little sack was right before my eyes.
‘Into the sack with it, bonny1 lad,’ he said.
I dropped the coin in. He held my eye with his. He grinned.
‘Good lad,’ he snarled.
Mum pushed my shoulders, helping me forward. I squirmed through, right to the front of the crowd.
‘Bonny lad!’ he muttered when he saw me there. He flexed his muscles. A cartwheel lay on the cobbles2 beside him. He stood it on end, in front of him. It had heavy wooden spokes, a thick steel rim. It was as high as his chest.
‘Could McNulty lift this?’ he hissed.
He took it in his hands, spread his legs, bent his knees and lifted it to his thighs and let it rest there. ‘Could he?’ he said through gritted teeth. There were tears of strain in his eyes. He groaned, lifted again, a sudden jerk that took the cartwheel high. We gasped. We backed away. He leaned his head back and rested the wheel on his brow so that it stood above him, with the sun and the bridge caught in its ring. He shuffled on the cobbles, balancing himself with his elbows wide and his hands gripping the rim of steel. He grunted and hissed. Then he lifted the cartwheel free and let it fall with a crash and the whole earth seemed to shake.
He glared at us. He blinked, wiped his tears away.
‘See? See what a man can do?’
I reached behind me but Mam’s hand wasn’t there. I looked back through the crowd and saw her and she smiled and held up her hand, telling me to stay there.
‘What next?’ said McNulty.
He fell silent as his eye met mine again. He leaned close.
‘Help me, bonny,’ he whispered.
He reached for my hand. I turned to Mam. She waved again and smiled, as if to tell me everything was fine, she was still there, there was nothing to fear. He cupped my shoulder and drew me to him.
‘This is my assistant,’ he said. ‘His name is ….’
I couldn’t speak. He leaned close. He cupped his hand across his mouth, whispered into my ear. Bobby and his mother meet a man known only as McNulty as he performs circus and conjuring tricks in their market square.<br>