Tilly Beany and the Best Friend Machine

This book is about a girl called Tilly Beany who gets back to school after the holidays and there's a new girl in class. Tilly wants to show her around the school. They start chatting and at morning tea time they play with Stephanie. All of a sudden Stephanie takes Bernice around to show her something that Tilly didn't show her. After morning tea their teacher asks them to draw a picture of their best friend. Tilly really wanted to draw Bernice but she was drawing her best friend at her old school. Stephanie drew Courtney but Tilly had no idea who to draw. When she got home she checked the mail. There was an invitation to go up north to spend Christmas with the Martin family. Tilly's dad said that there was a girl there a little bit younger than Tilly. Tilly thought this was her chance to have a special friend. On the way up north Tilly fell asleep. When she woke there was nothing around but sand roads, no houses, no animals, just dusty roads. After a while they saw a house up ahead. They thought that can't be their house but it ended up it was. When they got inside there was a plain wooden floor with a wooden roof. Tilly wondered where Lizzy, the girl a little bit younger than her was. All of a sudden there was a little voice behind the table but once she saw Tilly she ran into her bedroom and shut the door. At dinner when all the kids sat down there was a spare chair next to Lizzy with dinner in front of it. Tilly wondered who was going to sit there. All of a sudden Lizzy said to her mum, "where's Molly's water?" Just then Tilly thought she knew who was sitting there. She thought that Mrs Martin had an invisible kid. When Tilly had finished her dinner she heard Lizzy say Molly and I have finished but the invisible kid didn't eat anything. She thought that invisible kids don't need to eat at all. That night Tilly said to her mum, "I didn't know that Mrs Martin has another kid."

"But she doesn't." said her Mum. "You're probably talking about Lizzy's imaginary friend." The next day Tilly went up to Lizzy and said, "do you have an a imaginary friend because I do?" All of a sudden they thought of heaps of ideas to make them happy at Christmas. The day they left Tilly brought home a best friend machine that Lizzy and she had made. Tilly had wished that she lived in a house with heaps of apple trees, a cute black kitten and a best friend. When they got home their house felt very small. So they went to look in a house that no one lived in. When they got there it was Tilly's dream house with apple trees. They decided to move in. The day they moved in. Tilly heard a noise over the gate. It was three kids. They were all girls. They saw Tilly and invited her over. They played every day with each other. They decided to be best friends. The magic off the best friend machine came true because she also got a kitten from her Dad and they lived happily ever after.
This is a very good book written by Annie Dalton