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A middle-grade novel about two maybe-orphans and their unlikely friendship with a cranky old neighbor. At first Curtis isn't that worried when his mother doesn't come home from her all-night job at the local gas station. She'll be back, he's ten out of ten positive. Besides, Curtis is used to looking after himself and his five-year-old brother, Artie. But when the landlord starts pressuring them for the rent and the authorities start to investigate, it's more than a 12-year-old can handle. Just in time, Mrs. Burt, the cranky, lonely old lady who lives across the street, offers to take Curtis and Artie to her lakeside cabin for the summer. As summer sails by and the weather grows colder, Mrs. Burt seems to be preparing to spend the winter at the cabin, and Curtis starts to worry. Have they really all just absconded to the lake for a summer holiday? Or have the two boys been kidnapped?
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Caroline Adderson is the author of several award-winning books. Her works of adult fiction have been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. She is a three-time CBC Literary Award winner, two-time winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and recipient of the 2006 Marian Engel Award for her body of work. Her children’s books include I, Bruno, nominated for the Chocolate Lily and Shining Willow book awards, Very Serious Children, winner of the Diamond Willow Award and shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award, and Jasper John Dooley. She is also the author of the picture book Norman, Speak!, forthcoming, which won the Helen Isobel Sissons Canadian Children's Story Award. She lives in Vancouver.
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Do you understand now, boys, why I can’t ever go into an old folks’ home? Who would help me with my gas?”
The nurses,” I said.
Ha. They won’t. They’ll put me in diapers and leave me in the corner.”
You’re too old for diapers, Mrs. Burt,” Artie said.
Darn right I am.”
Who patted your back before we came along?” I asked her.
Nobody,” Mrs. Burt said. It was very painful.”
We got quiet after she said that. Even Artie understood how sad it was that Mrs. Burt lived all alone, far from her daughter the Big Shot who just wanted to put her in a home for old people and not help her with her gas. He wrapped his skinny arms around her and Mrs. Burt squeezed him back.
In a quavery voice, she told us, But I got you now, don’t I? We’re helping each other out.”
The nurses,” I said.
Ha. They won’t. They’ll put me in diapers and leave me in the corner.”
You’re too old for diapers, Mrs. Burt,” Artie said.
Darn right I am.”
Who patted your back before we came along?” I asked her.
Nobody,” Mrs. Burt said. It was very painful.”
We got quiet after she said that. Even Artie understood how sad it was that Mrs. Burt lived all alone, far from her daughter the Big Shot who just wanted to put her in a home for old people and not help her with her gas. He wrapped his skinny arms around her and Mrs. Burt squeezed him back.
In a quavery voice, she told us, But I got you now, don’t I? We’re helping each other out.”
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