The Real Thing Read online

  For more information please visit Brian’s website:

  www.brianfalkner.com

  COCA-COLA, COKE, the Contour Bottle and The Real Thing are trademarks of the Coca-Cola Company.

  First print edition published in 2004 by Mallinson Rendel Publishers Limited.

  Published in 2007

  by Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd

  Locked Bag 22, Newtown

  NSW 2042 Australia

  www.walkerbooks.com.au

  This ebook edition published in 2013

  The moral right of the author has been asserted.

  Text © 2004 Brian Falkner

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without the prior written permission of the publisher.

  National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

  Falkner, Brian.

  The real thing.

  For primary school age.

  Subjects: Coca-Cola Company – Juvenile fiction.

  Kidnapping – Juvenile fiction.

  Soft drinks – Juvenile fiction.

  NZ823.3

  ISBN: 978-1-921977-45-9 (.ePub)

  ISBN: 978-1-921977-44-2 (e-PDF)

  ISBN: 978-1-922244-49-9 (.PRC)

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