The Lost Songs by Caroline B. Cooney

Author:Caroline B. Cooney [Cooney, Caroline B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, Mothers and Daughters, Juvenile Fiction, Social Issues, Family, United States, People & Places, Schools, School & Education, Conduct of life, Interpersonal Relations, Parents, Music, Genres & Styles, African Americans, High Schools, African American, Multigenerational, Homelessness & Poverty, Folk Songs
ISBN: 9780375898051
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

Lutie Painter was horrified.

Train had been handed a new idea. One quick slice and he could cripple somebody. An organist, a football player, a chef—well, anybody, when you thought about it—needed both hands.

Train grabbed the hand of some poor kid standing near him, and played Slice the Tendons. The kid tried to laugh. Train’s friends did laugh.

Train might do it, too. Think what he had done to poor Nate. Well, sure, he claimed that he’d only cut the wire and that DeRade had cut the boy, but did anybody believe that? DeRade had had his brother in tow. Train would have been only steps away. And Train certainly had done nothing to prevent it, or he’d have barbed wire scars too.

DeRade had given himself a big gaping wound in his right palm. He’d been proud of it. Showed it to people. Didn’t want a doctor. Didn’t want stitches. Left the wound open.

What with the hole in his own fence and the hole in his own hand and the threats he’d made toward Nate to start with, the police didn’t have to work all that hard to find the perpetrator. First thing they did was take DeRade to the ER for a tetanus shot, and after he started bragging about how Nate had learned a lesson now, DeRade was history. He went to prison grinning.

Doria Bell got into the car with the little-boy minister and drove away.

Train turned and caught Lutie’s expression of contempt before she could wipe it off.

But maybe that’s a good thing, thought Lutie.

He needed to know that he was despised.

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