No one had much of an appetite at dinner, and even Petra couldn’t bring herself to push more food onto the glum crew brooding around the table. “I suppose,” said Michael-Dan, poking his peas into a neat line, “that I can get a job cutting hair.” “You’re too young to get a job,” Bea pointed […]
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Chapter 11
Bea stifled an urge to reply “Thanks, Mervin Frostly!” as she held out the tea tray to the little man on the floor. He was bald except for a fringe of red and silvery curls that started above one sticking-out ear, and ran around his head to the other. He wore heavy brown plastic-framed glasses, […]
Chapter 12
“Jiminy, but that’s disappointing,” said Mervin Frostly with a sad shake of his head. “She was so efficient.” Bea looked around the room. Frostly was clearly a man of many interests, but keeping organized was not one of them. No wonder he needed an assistant, very much like Hortensia needed her. “You’ll find someone else,” […]
BEA AND THE SMART KIDS
BREAKFAST OF SCALLYWAGS
HUNTING THE ROSE
THE LEGEND OF LOGJAM