Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

Author:Sara Pennypacker [Pennypacker, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781423198598
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Published: 2008-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Okay, fine.

I wiped off the frosting and underneath was a very mad face.

“Clementine,” my dad said, “you know girls don’t grow beards.”

“What about The Amazing Bearded Lady at the circus? What about that, huh?”

“Clementine, I’ve told you a hundred times: you can’t grow a beard.”

“So Rutabaga gets to have one like yours some day? Down to his knees if he wants? And I don’t? That’s not fair.” Which I have told him a hundred times.

“First of all, your brother’s name isn’t Rutabaga,” Dad said. “Second of all…well, never mind. Maybe today isn’t the time to talk about what’s fair.”

My dad and I looked at my mad mirror face with the green-markered top for a long time.

“I sure am having a lot of trouble with hair these days,” I whispered.

“I know, Sport,” Dad said. Then he hugged me. Usually this squeezes the mad right out of me. But that time it just mixed it all up with feeling sad and lucky, which was extremely confusing.

“Hey,” my dad said. “Have you got a little time to spare?”

I squint-eyed him: it depended.

“The Great Pigeon War,” he said. “It’s time for evening maneuvers. I could use someone like you on the front lines tonight. Someone with fresh ideas. I’m running a little low on them myself.”

I said okay, and my dad and I put on our raincoats and went outside.

First he got out the hose, which he calls the heavy artillery. Then he sprayed off the front steps and the sidewalk in front of the lobby doors. Last, he pointed the hose at the pigeons covering the ledges and windowsills and balconies and roofs of the front of our building. He sprayed them until they all flew away. That’s the best part, because when a million pigeons take off at the same time right above you, you can feel their wing beats exploding inside you, like fireworks.

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