Flood - Mississippi 1927

Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Duey’s works include the middle grade American Diaries and Survivors series, as well as the well-reviewed chapter book series The Unicorn’s Secret and its companion series, The Faeries’ Promise. She is also the National Book Award–nominated author of Skin Hunger . She lives in Fallbrook, California.Karen A. Bale grew up in southern California and graduated from the University California Riverside. She has written seventeen historical romances, including the successful seven-book Sweet Medicine’s Prophecy series . She has done freelance work for several years, including helping to write two nonfiction books. Karen still resides in southern California, ten miles from the Pacific Ocean. 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...

Product details

• Authors: Karen A Bale, Karen A. Bale, Kathleen Duey, Kathleen/ Bale Duey
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2015
• EAN: 9781481416429
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-1642-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Survivors; Survivors
• Subject: Children's and young people's books