Magic Nation Thing by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Author:Zilpha Keatley Snyder [Snyder, Zilpha Keatley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4804-7158-0
Publisher: Open Road Media

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“BUT WHEN I ASKED her why she was crying,” Abby told Paige, “she just shook her head and went, ‘Because he’s dead.’ And when I went, ‘Who’s dead?’ she kind of whispered, ‘Bugsy. Bugsy’s dead.’”

“Oh yeah?” Paige said. “I know about Bugsy. He’s that big black rabbit they have in the kindergarten room. I guess he died, huh?”

Paige and Abby had reached Paige’s room and were sitting in their favorite place on the fluffy rug. Back at school, when Paige had finally shown up and the two of them had pushed their way through the crowd to the bus stop, Abby didn’t say anything at all. And when they were finally on the bus, breathless and a little bit damp from the rain, all she said was “I have something important to tell you.”

“Well, tell me then,” Paige had said, but Abby had just shaken her head and rolled her eyes toward the two fifth-grade girls who, this time, had been sitting right behind them. “Wait till we get to your house,” she said.

So they waited, but when they got to Paige’s, they had another postponement while they dealt with Sky, who was waiting for them in the front hall. Running to stand in front of Abby, blocking her way, Sky said, “I have something for you.”

“For me?” Abby said. “Okay. Where is it?”

Sky’s hands were behind his back. “It’s right here. Behind me,” he said, but when Abby held out her hand, he giggled and jumped back out of reach. So she shrugged and started around him, only to have him jump in front of her again. That might have gone on for the rest of the afternoon if Paige hadn’t snuck up behind Sky and snatched the wrinkled envelope out of his hands. Then she gave it to Abby while Sky jumped up and down shrieking and trying to get it back. When Abby opened the envelope and pulled out a piece of wide-lined paper, Sky wailed, “Oh no,” and disappeared down the hall at a dead run.

Inside the envelope was a wrinkled piece of notebook paper covered with hearts and Xs, and in big uppercase printing it was signed Skyler Borden.

“Well, what is it?” Paige asked, but when Abby said she thought it was a love letter, Paige snorted and said, “Holy cow.” Then she grabbed Abby’s arm and pulled her up the stairs.

It wasn’t until they were safely hidden away in Paige’s room that Abby finally got a chance to tell her about the little kindergarten kid who’d said she was crying because Bugsy was dead.

“Yeah, I remember Bugsy,” Paige repeated.

Abby paused and then nodded slowly as she said, “And it wasn’t until then, when the little kid started talking to me, that I realized where I’d seen her before.”

“Where?” Paige asked, shaking her head and narrowing her eyes. “You mean like in the hall, maybe, or in the cafeteria?”

Abby sensed that Paige was about to guess but was trying not to. She was trying not

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