Author: Gary Paulsen
Age: 10+ years
Illustrator: Mark Taylor
Publisher: Macmillan, $14.95
It was just getting light as I ran into the house carrying our emergency bag, and I could smell what was happening as soon as I entered the kitchen.
The lights were on and a man of about fifty was sitting at the kitchen table. His face was grey and he was holding his left shoulder with his right hand.
He looked at me and smiled sheepishly, as if to apologise for the inconvenience, and started to say something but then stopped and looked at the floor in what soldiers call the thousand-yard stare.
His wife, a thin woman in jeans and sweatshirt, stood by him, and she gave me what we called the Look - an expression that meant Thank God you're here please save him please save him please save him.
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