The Italian American Reader by Bill Tonelli

The Italian American Reader by Bill Tonelli

Author:Bill Tonelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins


A WEEK AFTER THAT IT was Christmas Eve. The dog still hadn’t come back. None of the neighbors had seen it. The boy was confused. He wondered if maybe Barky had died, if his parents were just pretending Barky ran away because they didn’t think the boy was old enough to understand about death.

But he knew that if the dog was still alive, he would eventually come back. The boy’s dad, who didn’t know this, went to Uncle Rosie’s pet shop on Christmas Eve and came home with a cat. They named it Chestnut. The boy’s dad meant well, but the cat did not. That night, the cat’s first night in their house—Christmas Eve night—Chestnut got into the birdcage and bit the head off the boy’s bird, Chirpy.



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