Be Light Like a Bird by Monika Schröder

Author:Monika Schröder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 9781623707491;9781496533012;9781496533029;fiction;Capstone Young Readers;juvenile fiction - mothers and daughters;juvenile fiction - grief;juvenile fiction - bereavement;juvenile fiction - moving;household;juvenile fiction - bird watching;juvenile fiction - adjustment (psychology);juvenile fiction - Upper Peninsula (Michigan)
Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
Published: 2016-07-22T04:00:00+00:00

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“You said you needed shirts and pants,” Ma said as we entered JCPenney on Saturday morning.

When I’d told her about Theo’s request, I’d waited for some comment from her regarding him being a boy and such. But she hadn’t said anything, just asked when we wanted to go.

“Yes,” Theo said, as we walked past the men’s section toward the back of the store.

“Let’s start with pants,” Ma said, stopping in front of a shelf with jeans. “Do you want slim fit or flexible waist?”

Theo looked at me and shrugged. “Slim fit,” I said.

“What size are you?”

“I think a twenty-four,” Theo said.

“Here, these might be good.” Ma pulled a pair off the shelf and held them out in front of him. “We’ll bring you another size if this one doesn’t fit.”

Theo disappeared into the fitting room, and Ma and I looked for shirts.

“Do you think he’d like this?” she asked, holding up a long sleeved T-shirt with a picture of a truck printed on the front.

“No,” I said, shaking my head. “He’s a basics only kind of guy. Nothing too funky.”

“How about this one?” Ma asked, pointing to a dark-green long-sleeve T-shirt.

“That’s better,” I said.

“It’s kind of fun to shop for a boy,” Ma commented.

Doesn’t it remind you of shopping for Dad? I wanted to ask. But I knew that kind of comment would darken her good mood. She certainly wouldn’t start talking about Dad while we were at JCPenney with Theo. So I let it go.

Just this one time, I told myself.

“What do you guys think?” Theo asked just then. He had come out of the changing room and was looking at himself in the mirror. The jeans fit well.

“Perfect,” Ma and I said in unison.

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