Jack by Ellen Miles

Author:Ellen Miles
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780545324571
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2009-08-24T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Mom was in her study. She sat at her desk, her head in her hands. Lizzie thought she looked upset.

“Did Jack eat something?” Lizzie was alarmed. Maybe Charles had not watched the puppy closely enough while Lizzie had worked on her letter.

“No, it’s not that.” Mom sighed and sat up, revealing a pile of papers on her desk. “It’s just that I can’t seem to take these notes and make them into a good newspaper article. When I interviewed this man about his green building business, I thought I understood it. But now, I keep reading through my notes, and I’m not so sure.”

“That’s too bad,” said Lizzie. But she was relieved. At least Jack hadn’t done anything else wrong. So far. “I have my letter all ready to send to Kit Smithers.” She held up the flash drive she used to save all her homework and other important things.

Mom stuck the drive into her computer. “Let’s see if we can find a Web site,” she said. Mom typed in Kit Smithers’s name. When the list of possible sites came up, Lizzie pointed to one.

“Click on that one,” she said.

Mom clicked on the heading and a new page opened up.

“That’s her!” Lizzie looked over her mom’s shoulder. “That’s Kit Smithers! That’s the same picture of her that’s in the back of Mountain Girl.” Lizzie had studied that picture plenty of times, imagining how exciting it would be to visit Kit Smithers in Houston, Texas, where the caption said she lived.

“She looks like a nice person,” said Mom. They clicked around some more and found pictures of Kit Smithers as a little girl, a page with advice about writing, and a page about a brand-new book that would be coming out in a month. It was called Northern Lights, and as soon as Lizzie saw the sled dog team and the polar bear on the cover, she wanted that book.

“Look! There’s a place you can click if you want to send her mail.” Lizzie pointed.

Mom clicked, and an e-mail form popped up. She copied Lizzie’s letter from the flash drive into the e-mail. Then she attached a picture of Lizzie with Buddy, the one from last Christmas with them sitting under the tree together, Buddy snoozing in Lizzie’s lap.

“Put ‘from your number one fan, Lizzie’ in the subject line,” said Lizzie, “so she knows it’s from me even though it’s from your e-mail account.”

Mom typed that in.

Lizzie leaned over and clicked “send.” She couldn’t wait one minute longer. The sooner they sent the e-mail, the sooner she might hear back from Kit Smithers. That would be so cool. She imagined telling Maria. She imagined telling her whole class. Everybody would definitely be impressed. Lizzie stared at the screen, wishing a reply would appear instantly.

“Okay,” Mom said. “I’d better get back to work.”

That meant Lizzie was supposed to leave the study. “But you’ll keep checking to see if she answered, right?”

“I’ll keep checking,” said Mom. “But don’t be surprised if it takes longer than you think.

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