Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt

Author:Natalie Babbitt [Babbitt, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Mysteries & Detective Stories
ISBN: 9781429955126
Google: jklthe5Py0YC
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

“You’re a big dumb fool!” screamed Ada into the wind. “The Megrimum will eat you just like it ate Uncle Ott!” She began to cry and then she was running, too, running away toward home just as the rain began.

In the fields at the edge of the village, the visitors to the Instep Fair sat eating their suppers in a state of high excitement and anticipation. The rain fell softly at first, hissing into campfires and pattering gently on the sloping canvas of tents and the thin board roofs of caravans. Eager voices babbled, called, whispered.

“Ooh, I’m scared to death! When will it begin?” This happily.

“There’s a lot more to the world than meets the eye. There’s hidden things, strange things. That old fellow up there in the mist—it makes you stop and wonder. He can do terrible things. Great things, maybe. Who knows?” This soberly.

“I tell you there’s nothing like it anywhere else in the world. I’ve traveled and I know.” This proudly.

“Sheep and bread and the flat fields, that’s what the days are. Except for this day. But it’s enough, just having this day. It’s the knowing there’s something different, something special up there waiting. It’s the knowing you could choose to change your days—climb up there and throw yourself right down the throat of the only and last and greatest terrible secret in the world. Except you don’t climb up. A secret like that—well, it’s worth the keeping. And anyway, you’d never come down again, ever.” This with intense satisfaction.

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