Aleca Zamm Is a Wonder by Ginger Rue & Zoe Persico

Author:Ginger Rue & Zoe Persico
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

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Wondering

“Your brother Zander could read people’s minds?” I asked Aunt Zephyr. “How?”

“Same way that my other brother, Alec, could talk to animals,” she replied.

I repeated, “How?”

“Exactly,” she said.

That did not answer my question.

“Alec, this doesn’t make any sense,” my mother said. “Is this a story to entertain Aleca, or is your aunt actually suggesting—”

“His aunt is sitting right here, Harmony,” said Aunt Zephyr sharply. “You needn’t talk as though I’m not in the room.”

“I’m sorry,” my mother said. She never liked to upset anyone. “I didn’t mean—”

“No apologies necessary,” interrupted Aunt Zephyr. “It is quite a bit to take in. But I believe it’s best that we speak plainly. I’ve always been a believer in speaking plainly. Sit up straight, Skippy.”

My father straightened his posture.

“I still don’t understand how your brothers did such things,” I said.

“Neither did we,” said Aunt Zephyr. “We wondered about it for a long time—wondered how it had happened, wondered why it had happened, wondered how to make it stop happening, wondered why it had happened to us and not to other people.”

“Us?” my mother asked. “You talk to animals and read minds too?”

“Heavens, no!” cried Aunt Zephyr. She laughed. “Imagine me, reading minds and talking to animals! How silly!”

My mom looked confused but laughed along with her. “Oh,” my mother said. “For a minute there I thought that you were . . . you know . . . not ordinary.”

Aunt Zephyr stopped laughing. “I assure you that I am far from ordinary. I didn’t read minds or talk to animals, but I had my own reasons to wonder.”

Then Aunt Zephyr told us what had happened to her on that same day so many years before.

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