Download or read book Dancing on Knives written by Jenny Pausacker and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing on Knives is a gripping story about family and growing up from award-winning author Jenny Pausacker. When Rochelle Parfitt?s parents split up her mother coped brilliantly, topping a perfect marriage with the perfect divorce. But now Mrs Parfitt has whisked Rochelle off to Melbourne, where neither of them knows anybody. Isolated and miserable, Rochelle starts to skip school and ends up secretly taking a job at the World Tree, an inner city bookshop that specialises in fairytales. When things get tough she finds herself using the fairytale collections as a guide to the adult world around her ? and, in the process, she discovers she has learnt how to tell her own stories.