Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs by Ann M. Martin

Author:Ann M. Martin [M. Martin, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

That Saturday, Kristy was baby-sitting while her mom and stepfather were out at a fancy luncheon. Kristy’s grandmother had taken Emily Michelle shoe shopping, and Karen and Andrew (Kristy’s stepsister and stepbrother) were at their mother’s, so Kristy had only one charge: her little brother David Michael.

It was the day after I’d gotten the license number of the green car. The other members of the BSC had been impressed by the detective work that Kristy and I had done. But by Saturday morning, Kristy had other things on her mind, and she’d practically forgotten about the green car. Saturday was the day of the first Krashers practice, and Kristy and Bart would be coaching together for the first time.

Kristy was a little nervous. Since the Krushers and the Bashers were usually deadly rivals, it might be hard for some of the players to learn how to cooperate with each other. “I hope those Bashers behave,” she said to David Michael as they walked toward the playground. “Remember how they used to tease us?”

“What?” asked David Michael, after a moment. He’d been peering into a neighbor’s backyard as he and Kristy passed by. “Sorry, I didn’t hear what you said.”

“Never mind,” said Kristy. She’d only been thinking out loud, anyway, and there was no reason to pass her worries on to her little brother. He had enough on his mind. Shannon had been missing for a long time, and he looked for her everywhere he went, put out food for her every day (hoping to tempt her back if she had run away), and carried a leash with him at all times, just in case he found her.

Kristy gave David Michael a pat on the shoulder. “Hang in there,” she said. “I’m sure we’ll be seeing Shannon again soon.” Actually, Kristy wasn’t sure at all, but she felt she had to say something to cheer David Michael up. He looked miserable.

“Remember when we first got Shannon?” David Michael asked. He took Kristy’s hand for a moment, as if he were a much younger kid.

“I’ll never forget it,” she answered. “She was the cutest thing I’d ever seen. She made me feel happy again, even though I was so sad about Louie.”

Louie was a collie. He had belonged to the Thomases, and Kristy and David Michael had loved him with all their hearts. Kristy even has a baseball cap with a picture of a collie on it; it’s one of her favorite possessions.

But Louie, who was pretty old, got very sick and had to be put to sleep. This happened soon after Kristy had moved into Watson’s mansion. She was having a hard time fitting in to her new neighborhood, and one of the reasons was that she thought the other kids who lived there were snobby. They all seemed to have beautiful pedigreed pets, and some of them made fun of scruffy old Louie.

Soon after he died, though, one of those neighbors made peace — and made friends — with Kristy.

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