The Shoplifting Poem

It is based on One-way Ticket by Iona McNaughton. We had to do it for a study at school then write poems/letters/diary entries based on it.

Based on One-way Ticket by Iona McNaughton

Alice likes to steal

Valuable things that are real

Meg hasn’t stolen before

Until she walked into the store

Alice is really mean

Under the prettiness you have seen

She befriended Meg

And treated her like a peg

First Meg stole some chocolate

Stuffed it down her pocket

Later she stole a book

She was glad that no one looked

One day she got caught

Because Alice told the man at the store

The guy’s name was Blair

Infamous for an affair

The ex of Ms Ferguson

The father of Emily and Aaron

Meg was in some trouble

Blair has stubble

Meg was about to get abused

She was scared right out of her shoes

Then she managed to break free

She had to explain to her daddy

Meg didn’t know what to do!

She was very confused!

She told Laura everything

She was stuttering

Eventually things were okay

Meg is in New Zealand to this day

Author's Note

If you want me to explain what the poem means and you don't mind me spoiling the book, I will explain now. If you don't want me to spoil the book, turn back!


Last chance to turn back!


So basically Meg and her father, Don, moved from Toronto to New Zealand. Meg became friends with a girl named Alice who shoplifts. She managed to get Meg to do it with her. One day Nick - Alice's boyfriend - was hassling Meg and she slapped him. Nick told Alice that Meg couldn't keep her hands off him and that she liked him. Alice got mad. She and Meg argued. Alice pretended to make up with her. Alice took her shoplifting again. Alice told a staff member to watch Meg - it was her revenge. The staff member's name was Blair, who divorced with Laura - Don's date - because he was playing around with a 17 year-old girl. So he sexually abused someone. That is why in the poem Meg was about to get abused.

Sorry if this is confusing!