The Secrets of Ordinary Farm by Tad Williams & Deborah Beale

Author:Tad Williams & Deborah Beale
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub

Tyler flopped down beside her. He looked around the empty living room as if there might be spies hiding behind the sofa cushions, but it was late afternoon and everyone was out of the house doing chores or running errands. “Grandma Paz—she knows a lot more than she’s telling,” he said in a dramatic voice.

“Well, duh.”

“What does that mean?”

Lucinda sat up carefully—her head sometimes still pounded if she moved too quickly, but otherwise she was feeling better, although she still had no idea what had happened to her that day in the garden. “Everybody around here knows more than they’re telling—except us kids. That’s the whole point. The place is full of secrets.”

“Well, I’m going to find out what she’s hiding. You can tell she’s dying to tell somebody . . . ”

Lucinda sighed loudly. “And then what? You’ll ride Eliot the Sea Serpent up Kumish Creek, throwing hand grenades until Colin Needle and his mother surrender?”

“What is your problem? Why are you being like this, Luce?”

Tears came into her eyes. “Because I’m tired of listening to you talking about all the things we’re supposed to be doing when we’re helpless. I wish we’d never learned about this stupid place. It’s all been just . . . trouble. And scary, dangerous things. I want to go home.”

Tyler stared at her as if she’d announced she didn’t want to have Christmas anymore. “You’re crazy, Luce.”

“Well, I’m tired,” she said, “and I still feel lousy!”

“But you’re totally in love with those dragons . . . !”

“You don’t get it, Tyler. I don’t care anymore! It’s too hard! Even the grownups can’t make this work—what are we supposed to do? We’re kids!”

“But the grown-ups can’t make things work because they’re grown-ups!” Tyler shouted.

Lucinda rolled her eyes and said, “I’m going to go take a nap.”

Tyler followed her down the hall to Carmen’s room. He was angry now, too. “So you’re just going to give up? We’ve got a few days of our summer left—that’s all. And you want to let the Needles have the farm and all the animals and do whatever they want while we go back home—while we go back to school?”

“What else can we do?” Lucinda knew she was being hard on her younger brother: he wasn’t feeling as lousy as she was, so of course he was frustrated. But she really did feel exhausted—whatever had caused the strange fever was not entirely gone. Suddenly it was all she could do to stumble to her bed.

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