The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

Author:Grace Lin [LIN, GRACE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV013000
ISBN: 9780316030977
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2007-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

I also had my gift that I was supposed to hand to Dorothy. It was a shoe box covered with sapphire blue wrapping paper and a big red bow. It was completely empty. I could toss it in the air like a balloon. But that didn’t matter because Dorothy never ended up opening it—which I didn’t think was right. If I were given a gift from a munchkin, I’d open it right away.

Melody and I watched everyone rush around. It was as if there were a hurricane happening all around us.

“This is why I didn’t try out to be Dorothy,” Melody told me. “Too stressful!”

“True,” I said, “but it’s exciting, too. When you’re one of us, without an important role, it’s pretty boring.”

“You’ve got an important role,” Melody said. “You’re the gift-giving munchkin!”

“Yeah, I’m giving an empty box,” I said. “Great present!”

“Actually, Danny Dog has the biggest role out of all of us,” Melody laughed. Danny Dog was Melody’s stuffed animal. He was going to be Toto. Becky had volunteered Scruffy, but Ms. Malone said a real dog would be “unreliable,” so Melody brought fuzzy, chocolate-colored Danny Dog. Most of the time, Danny Dog was carried in Dorothy’s basket, so he didn’t really get to do much either—though one of the boys did bark offstage to give him a voice.

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