Flood - Mississippi 1927

Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Duey and Karen A. Bale Klappentext When the raging Mississippi threatens their secret cache of hard-earned nickels and pennies, Molly and her white friend Garrett risk their lives to retrieve the money.Survivors Chapter One Molly Bride could hear the river. It sounded like a hard wind. The rain had started again, and her faded yellow shift was wet through, plastered across her back. The path was underwater from the mule shed on. Feeling something sharp stab at her heel, she took an uneven step to the side, splashing brown water on her hem. She balanced herself, reaching out to grip the rain-slick fence rail. She pulled her foot out of the sucking mud, twisting around to look. No blood. Molly started up the path again, walking more slowly, swatting at the mosquitoes that whined close to her ears. Her family had owned this farm for ten years, and they were still picking up broken glass. The Porter boys had used this end of the farmyard for target practice. They must have shot up a thousand soda pop bottles, learning to aim straight. She sighed and glanced upward, squinting against the rain. Was it ever going to stop? The wind drove the spattering raindrops against the side of the chicken coop as Molly swung the door open and stepped over the threshold. She was greeted with startled clucking from the rows of low roosts. Pa’s favorite speckled Dominique hen darted out of the shadows, and Molly dodged her pecking beak, then bent to pin her wings and lift her to eye level. “You ought to know better than to try that with me,” she scolded. The hen struggled, and Molly set her atop the nest shelf and backed up quickly. The floor planks were slippery. The standing water was seeping up from below the floor. Molly shook her finger at the speckled hen. “You just stay put, now.” She glanced away, then back when she saw the hen spread her wings a little. “I said stay put! You peck me even once, and I’ll throw you out into that storm, and you won’t get warm for a week.” The hen made a resentful grinding sound and settled, lowering her wings and flattening her feathers. Only then did Romeo, the brown-and-white rooster, come out from under the old corncrib built along the far wall. He approached slowly, marching proudly, his arched tail swinging from side to side. “You’ll have to wait for Meachum to bring you supper scraps,” Molly told him. “Mama just sent me out for eggs.” Just as she finished speaking, the wind shoved against the coop again, and Molly felt the planks shudder beneath her feet. The whole shed rocked and trembled. A chorus of squawking rose from the frightened hens. “No wonder you aren’t laying,” Molly murmured as she checked the nests. She found four eggs in the damp straw. Only four. That would barely be enough for this morning’s griddle cakes. Her mother was going to be upset—and the tawny hen was still missing. Maybe a fox had gotten her. Or she was setting somewhere under the mule shed or the porch, trying to hatch a clutch of eggs. Molly’s mother had been pretty testy lately. The rain was on everyone’s nerves. Every time they took the truck into town, the water seemed higher. Driving along the top of the levee was strange now. Usually, the river wasn’t anywhere close. You couldn’t even see it through the stands of willow and pine and the tangle of weeds and tye vines that grew along its banks. Now, the dark brown water had covered all that and come up over the cleared berm. The deep barrow pit at the toe of the levee had filled up weeks ago. Then the water had risen up the slope. The past few days the river had been lapping at the levee road. Molly gathered her hem in one hand, placing the eggs into the folds of the soft cotton. Careful not to bump them against the coop...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Karen A Bale, Karen A. Bale, Kathleen Duey, Kathleen/ Bale Duey
• Verlag: Simon & Schuster USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 24.03.2015
• EAN: 9781481416436
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-1643-6
• Seiten: 176
• Serien: Survivors; The Survivors
• Thema: Kinder- und Jugendbücher