The Secret Tree by Standiford Natalie

Author:Standiford, Natalie [Standiford, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

After dinner I took a walk in the woods. Otis and Esmeralda had left. Soon it would be dark. I stopped at the Secret Tree and reached inside.

I wanted to find an answer. To something. To anything.

But instead, I found another secret.

I’m betraying my best friend in a terrible way.

All the secrets were sad. But this one really hurt me. Because to me, best friends are sacred. And when this person’s best friend found out about the betrayal, that friendship would be over.

I put the secret back in the hole. I wanted Crazy Ike to eat it. I wanted it to go away.

I walked home in the dusk. Mr. Jack was setting off some fireworks he’d bought in Virginia. He did this every year. He didn’t have a permit, but a lot of the things Mr. Jack did were illegal. That’s just the way he was.

Everyone in the neighborhood was gathered in my backyard, faces turned to the sky. The fireworks bathed them in colors, red, white, blue, green….

They all have their secrets, I thought. Each person’s real life is a mystery.

The fireworks exploded, commemorating a war for independence, while all around me people fought their private battles. Even the Mean Boys. Sister versus brother, friend versus friend, son versus father … they all had private battles that no one understood except for them.

I wanted to understand. But the more I spied, the more mystery I uncovered. I’d never know the whole story. There was so much I couldn’t guess.

One of these people was betraying his or her best friend.

Was Troy betraying David?

Was Melina betraying Thea?

My eyes fell on Paz. A thought fought its way to the front of my mind, a thought so awful I could hardly stand to think it. But it pushed its way through and made itself known.

Was Paz betraying me?

And then, one final possibility: Was Raymond?

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