Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
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Well, in a jiffy, there we all were, standing around in a sort of half circle, looking over each other’s shoulders and between each other’s heads, right in front of Old Man Padd...
4. Part 4Well, that was supposed to be funny, and most everybody around the camp fire thought it was and laughed hard, but it wasn’t funny, maybe. For a minute I was almost mad, but deci...
3. Part 3“Kinda worn out,” I said, and the dust which I’d been stirring up with a pitchfork over our corn elevator made me sneeze twice. “Maybe I’ve got hayfever,” I said.
5. Part 5We made Dragonfly put on some lotion and pretty soon he was asleep again, but I was wide awake, thinking about the kidnapper. Right that second Poetry nudged me and said, “Bill-...
1. Part 1All rights in this book are reserved. No part may be reproduced in any manner without the permission in writing from the author, except brief quotations used in connection with...
6. Part 6I whispered it to Poetry when I saw what the policemen were doing right that minute, saying, “Anybody can’t get by with any kind of crime,” and Poetry, who is almost as good a C...