The Snottle

The Snottle is a children's book by Michael Lawrence, the fifth book in the Jiggy McCue book series, and was first published in the UK in 2003.
Plot summary
There's a new girl in Jiggy's class called Steffanie, or Steff for short. Whenever she snonks - sneezes really loudly - which is quite a lot, her nose 'explodes', and all her snot splashes everywhere.
Jiggy's friend Angie makes friends with Steff because Steff hasn't got anyone else, because of her snonking, constant sniffing and the fact that she's new. She discovers that Steff's grandmother was the same as Steff; she snonked, but she was a professional because she only snonked when she was working.
Steff says her grandmother told the future by snonking. Angie believes her, because she claims that when Steff snonked she saw the future. Jiggy doesn't believe her at first, but then he sees it for himself. Pete doesn't believe it at all.
When the four are walking home from school, they pass the Midden, a rubbish dump, and see a little green creature that looks like a grapefruit crawling around there. When Steff snonks, it comes out from hiding and licks all the snot off her. It sees Steff's lucky charm, a seed pod that belonged to her grandmother, and attaches itself to it, so Steff takes the little creature back to her house in Cod Lane, where there's a fish factory.
The Three Musketeers and Steff decide to call the creature a Snottle, and try and clean it up as it had been living in the rubbish dump. It decides it doesn't like water, and in an attempt to wriggle out of Steff's grasp, it falls into the toilet, and Pete cruelly flushes it, so the creature goes down the U-Bend.
The Snottle comes back though, and the Musketeers, along with Steffanie, discover some interesting things about the Snottle, as well as the Future Snot, Steff's nan and the 'seed pod'.
Characters
*Jiggy McCue
*Pete Garrett
*Angie Mint
*Steff
*Peg McCue
*The Snottle

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