Dawn and the Older Boy by Ann M. Martin

Author:Ann M. Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Kristy always likes to give a lot of details about her baby-sitting jobs because she expects the club members to read the notebook very carefully. It’s a great way to learn what other baby-sitters are doing with their kids, and you can get a lot of good ideas. None of us really likes to write in the notebook, but Kristy takes her job as president very seriously, and she tries to set an example for us.

“Going Camping” was the perfect way to entertain her four younger brothers and sisters. Karen has a great imagination and loves any kind of game that involves “let’s pretend.” David Michael is an easygoing kid who will go along with just about any game you suggest. And Andrew and Emily love to play, period!

This is the way Kristy and Karen set up the game. They found an old bedspread upstairs in the linen closet. It had belonged to Andrew and was bright yellow with racing cars all over it.

“It doesn’t look like a real tent,” David Michael said doubtfully when Kristy and Karen brought it downstairs. “It should be dark green, or maybe brown.”

“No, this is fine,” Kristy said hastily. She knew the kids were getting restless, and she wanted to start things moving as quickly as possible.

“I’ll help!” Karen yelled when Kristy started to drape the bedspread over some lawn chairs.

“Make it a big tent,” David Michael suggested. “Then we can move all our supplies inside.” He picked up a brown canvas canteen and a cast-iron frying pan.

“Big ant?” Emily said, puzzled. Emily is learning English sort of slowly. The pediatrician says she’s language-delayed.

Andrew laughed. “No, big tent,” he said, pointing to the bedspread. “C’mon inside.”

“Wait! Don’t go in yet!” Karen said urgently.

Kristy looked startled. “Why not?”

Karen lowered her voice to a whisper. “Because you can’t just walk into a tent without looking. You have to check it first for bears. There could be one sleeping inside.”

“Bears?” Emily started to look a little worried.

“It’s just pretend,” Kristy said, taking her hand. Karen is very imaginative, and when you set up a pretend situation, she jumps right in. “What should we do?” Kristy asked very seriously. She was still holding on to Emily’s hand. She didn’t want to squelch Karen’s imagination, but she didn’t want Emily to be frightened, either.

Karen thought for a moment. “I’ll go in first,” she said. She picked up a broken flashlight. “If I’m not back in a few minutes, you better call the mountain rangers.”

“Good idea,” David Michael told her. “I think I can signal them. It’s a good thing I know Morse code.” He scrambled through a cigar box filled with toys and picked out a set of fake teeth. He clicked the teeth together a few times. “We’re lucky this is still working.”

“I want to do Morse code! I want to do Morse code!” Andrew shouted.

“Sssh,” Karen said. “You’ll wake up the bear if he’s sleeping inside. Do you know how mad they get if you wake them

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