Courage for Beginners by Karen Harrington

Author:Karen Harrington
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Friendship, Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Bullying, Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Depression & Mental Illness, Juvenile Fiction / Books & Libraries, Juvenile Fiction / Family / Parents, Juvenile Fiction / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

Here is a girl experiencing nine shades of nefariousness.

Lost.

Lost in my own stupid town.

Okay, think, Mysti. You’ve ridden the bus for a year. You’ve got to figure this out. You’ve got to get home before Mama panics.

Mama.

She will suffer the most from my being lost. Or snatched? And Laura alone with Mama? That is a dreadful thought. Mama will never let Laura go back to school. They will both be forced to survive on tap water and turnips. They will wear those HAVE YOU SEEN ME? T-shirts until my iron-on photo fades away.

The first thing my non-animal brain does is some kind of mental blame equation that adds up all the reasons this is not my fault.

If Texas wasn’t so hot, the school AC would not have broken.

And then students wouldn’t have to go home early.

Making the buses really disorganized.

And if the buses weren’t disorganized, there wouldn’t be a long line of jerks with more insults than sense.

And insults make you walk away.

You wouldn’t have to walk if your mom drove or dear old Dad wasn’t sick.

And Dad wouldn’t be sick if not for the stupid dumb old tree.

I line up this equation in my mind. The common denominator of blazing heat and old tree is Mother Nature. And since nature is created by God, I look to the sky and begin to lay the ultimate blame heavenward. Right as I am deciding between saying a prayer or shouting an insult, I hear a voice call out to me:

“Mysti, you are not lost. You are just confused.”

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