NO ORDINARY OWL by Lauraine Snelling & Kathleen Damp Wright

Author:Lauraine Snelling & Kathleen Damp Wright [Snelling, Lauraine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781624164514
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

They heard the two men before they saw them between the carriage house and the mansion.

“I’m sick of you teaching your killer birds to practice on my chickens!” that Awful Person roared, reaching up to poke a finger at Beake Man’s skinny chest. He was quite a bit shorter than Byron.

“If you’d take your blinkers off, you’d see it’s not my birds playing havoc with your chickens!” Beake Man’s voice, though thinner and a little gaspy, sounded equally angry.

The girls hid behind two big trees that shared a massive trunk. Sunny on her knees with Aneta crouched over her. Vee peeking from the other side with Esther sitting cross-legged and peering out through the pine branches that grew close to the ground. She pulled out an uncomfortable pinecone from beneath and seconds later had an idea.

“Hey,” she hissed, holding up the pinecone. “We’ve got to break this up before they start fighting.” If the Bad Guy hit him in the face or bumped Byron’s mask, bad things might happen to Byron’s face. The Squad was becoming very fond of Byron’s face.

Esther tipped to all fours and pushed herself to her feet. They had to move quickly. Spy Mode.

“Nothing like this happened before you moved in!” that Awful Person was saying.

The girls looked at the two men. Esther shared her plan, gesturing with the pinecone.

“Spy Mode then!” Esther directed the girls to slink from tree to tree until they were on the side and behind that Awful Person.

“Take off your sweatshirts.” Sunny demonstrated why with her hoodie that had a picture of a horse on it.

Good idea.

Now that Awful Person was telling Beake Man he ought to punch him in the face. Beake Man was backing up, fists clenched.

I bet he wants to pop that ole Awful Person. Esther knew just how he felt. Someone had made fun of Siddy once when her little brother was doing something strange. Good thing Mom had been there and said something about rising above the situation. Esther hadn’t liked it, but it helped her not hit the kid, which was a good thing. The kid had been a lot bigger than her.

“Brilliant!” Vee said, stripping off her Moby Perkins Elementary red-and-yellow hoodie.

“The Squad thinks of everything,” Aneta approved and followed suit with her bright Cunningham Academy hoodie.

For a very quick second, Esther wished her hoodie wasn’t still swinging off the spikes out front. But—she grinned—she had the slingshot. “Once you’re in position, I’ll give the signal.” The girls nodded and dropped to scuttle like monkeys, using their arms to keep their balance so low to the ground. In a blink, they were in position.

She looked right. Vee was filling her makeshift ammo holder with pinecones. Looking left, she noted Aneta and Sunny doing the same.

“You can use my pinecones,” Vee whispered.

Esther nodded. “Right. Time to act.” She raised both arms up, pressing them against her ears. Peering around her arms, she smiled. Vee was ready. She turned left. Sunny and Aneta nodded. They would attack that Awful Person’s left side.

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