Monday, October 12, 2015

Book Excerpt for the Day


    “I brung you a giftie,” he told her eagerly, his eyes dancing with excitement.

    “What was it that you held up at the Gathering?  I couldn’t see it.”

    “I brung you two things.  A big and a little.  The big be coming still.  But I gots the little here in my pockie.”  He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper.

    “Nope.  Be the other side.”


    (from Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry)

    7*/10.  The complete review is here.
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