Star in the Forest by Laura Resau

Author:Laura Resau [Resau, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-375-89594-4
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2010-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

The next day was Friday, which meant that Papá was probably on our side of the border now and on his way to Colorado. All day in school, that’s all I could think about. When Mr. Martin told me to read the next paragraph about amphibians, I didn’t even know what page we were on. There was an awkward silence, but then Crystal called out, “Second paragraph on page thirty, Zitlally.”

My face felt a little hot, but mostly I felt thankful, and I didn’t care that everyone in the fifth grade thought she was my best friend now.

After school, we got together our bag of supplies to wash Star and make him look good for Papá. He’d already gotten a little dirty over the past week, but nowhere near as bad as before. “We’ll just do a little touch-up,” Crystal said. We filled the turquoise car-washing bucket halfway with water and brought it down the path toward the forest. We had to take turns carrying it because it was really heavy and the metal handle kept digging into our palms.

“Too bad there’s not electricity there,” Crystal said. “Then we could bring my mom’s curling iron and totally style his hair.”

“Yeah, too bad,” I said, secretly glad there was no electricity. It would have been embarrassing for Star to have his hair curled. After all, he was a boy. I just wanted his fur to be clean and white so that the star on the back of his neck would stand out for Papá. And I wanted him to smell like an orange Starburst.

The tulips’ petals were shriveling and turning brown at the edges now, and the daffodils’ had already fallen off. Too bad Papá wouldn’t get to see how pretty they looked when they were new and bright.

That’s what I was thinking when we turned the corner into the car part forest and saw that Star was gone.

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