Behind the Gates by Gray Eva

Author:Gray, Eva [Gray, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.to
ISBN: 9780545388627
Amazon: B004XJRQY2
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

Monday after breakfast Mrs. Brewster tells all of us to stay for her big announcement: our first overnight trip will be this upcoming weekend!

Rosie and I squeal with excitement, hugging each other. “Do you feel ready for this?” I ask.

“I do. I think so. Yes,” Rosie replies.

“Me, too,” I say, though I’m not really so sure. We’ve been training for this all week. And it’s not like I have to know all the outdoor things. We all have our areas of skill and we’ll have to work together as a team, I imagine.

I run into Evelyn and Maddie on my way to English class. “So? Are you guys psyched for the overnight?” I ask eagerly.

“Oh, yeah, way psyched,” Maddie replies in a sarcastically dull monotone.

I sigh, but otherwise I ignore her remark.

“It could be interesting,” Evelyn allows. “But get this, when I was on rounds last night I heard some of the teachers talking. This trip is happening earlier than was originally planned. The staff moved it forward because they’re worried about bad weather sooner than expected.”

“Okay. So?” I say. “I don’t see the big deal.”

“Think!” Evelyn scolds. “They know the weather.”

“Which means what?” I ask.

“Which means they obviously have a radio or TV or something, somewhere in this place,” Evelyn says knowingly.

“Unless they have a psychic on staff,” Maddie jokes. “A Canadian weather psychic.”

Evelyn laughs. “Oh, that’s funny! The Alliance ESP Division!”

Suddenly I remember about the Canadian food. “I’ve been meaning to mention something to you, Evelyn,” I begin. “You asked me to keep my eyes open in the kitchen, remember?”

“Uh-huh,” Evelyn agrees, still laughing.

“Well, the only thing I noticed is that all our food comes from a Canadian company.”

Evelyn stops laughing. “Are you kidding?”

“No. Really.”

Evelyn takes out a little notepad — a paper one — that she has in her pocket. She flips it open and then takes out her pen.

“A lot of different Canadian companies, or just one?” Evelyn asks.

“It’s all from the same place,” I tell her. “Some place called NutriCorp. It uses a big Canadian maple leaf on its logo.”

Evelyn writes this down in her notebook. “Do you think that’s important?” I ask.

“Who knows? It might be,” Evelyn answers. “It shows a connection between CMS and someone in Canada.”

“Couldn’t it just be the closest place for CMS to have food delivered from?” I challenge.

Sasha, our English teacher, comes by. “Get to class, girls,” she says briskly.

We take the test on A Tale of Two Cities that morning. We’re asked to compare the time of the French Revolution to our times. I smile when I see the question because I’ve already given this some thought.

Once we’ve handed in our papers, Sasha collects our Dickens novels. “Evelyn and Louisa, please take out the novels you’ll find in the back of the cabinet by the door. Pass them out among the class.”

In the cabinet, Evelyn and I find a stack of paperback books, all the same. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George. The books themselves are yellowed and frayed.

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