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Cicada Summer By Andrea Beaty Amulet Ages 8-12 176 pages ISBN: 978-0-8109-9472-0
Chapter 2
The Girl Who Knows My Secret
I’m reading in the shade under the cottonwood tree when Nancy Drew finds a big clue that’s going to help her solve the mystery. It’s a secret message stitched right into the design of a quilt. It’s as big as day staring Nancy right in the face and she doesn’t even see it. I guess that’s the best kind of clue—the kind you can’t see right in front of your eyes. I wonder if you have to be ready to see clues like that before they appear. Or maybe they have to be ready for you to find them. I’m sitting in the shade trying to decide, when a long flowery silk scarf dangles in front of my face and someone says, “I bet the butler did it.” It startles me so much that I break my number one rule of invisibility. I react. Before I can stop myself, I look up into the tree and straight into a pair of dark brown eyes on the face of a girl I’ve never seen before. She has a crooked smile and long black hair pulled back in a braid and she’s wearing cut-off jeans and a blue shirt. I’m trapped. I grab my book and run. Behind me, I hear the cicadas stop for just a second while this girl laughs and swings out of the tree. I hear her yell something at me and then the buzz of the cicadas swarms up and swallows her laughter. Before the cicadas stop again, I’m gone. |
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“... this is compelling fiction that will be a hit with young readers, as rich and thought-provoking and yet as accessible as DiCamillo’s Because of Winn-Dixie.” —Horn Book |
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