Dog Days by Karen English

Author:Karen English
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard looks up and gives him a big grin of surprise. “I thought you had to walk that dog.”

Gavin smiles slyly and points to Carlotta, who’s settled down with her Chew-Chew. “I can only stay for a little bit. How come you’re not skating?”

“’Cause that Harper guy has my skateboard. He said he just wanted to borrow it for five minutes, and it’s been way longer than five minutes.”

Gavin scans the skateboarders until he sees Harper on Richard’s skateboard and Darnell on his own. He narrows his eyes, still a little angry about the day before. Gavin definitely doesn’t like Harper. In fact, he feels Harper was the one who led the laughter at his expense.

“Is that guy your brother’s good friend?”

“Kinda. They’re in the same class, and he’s always wanting to go everywhere Darnell goes and do whatever Darnell and his other friends are doing. He came from this other school. I bet you he got kicked out.”

“Didn’t he do third grade twice?”

Richard shrugs. “Maybe.”

“Well, you can share my board. We can take turns.”

Gavin slips on his helmet. He moves to the top of the first pocket and waits while one of the big boys goes down the curved wall, does a heel flip, propels himself up the opposite curved wall, then leaps onto the long stair railing. Down the older boy sails, like some kind of skateboard champion, to land nicely on top of his board, crouched and ready. Back and forth he goes, up and down one curved wall and then its opposite. It looks like he could do that forever.

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