Second Star to the Fright by Vera Strange EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Vera Strange
- Language: English
- Genre:Children’s Scary Stories
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THE BIG FRIGHT
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“Rise and shine!”
Barrie’s mother’s voice echoed through the house, up the stairs, down
the hallway, and through his bedroom door. “Time to get up for school.”
How does she have vocal superpowers that could wake the dead? Barrie
thought as he buried his head under his pillow. He cracked his eyes open
and groaned when he saw the clock.
“Not even six,” he muttered into his pillow, pressing his head into it. He
grasped at the last fleeting tendrils of sleep and the exciting dream he’d
been having, not wanting to forget it. He’d been trying to solve a mystery in
a haunted cabin on a remote island, looking for a secret treasure. “It’s still
dark outside. This is…child torture.”
He flipped over and tried to bury his head deeper, knocking the pile of
mystery books off his bed and onto the floor, along with the flashlight that
he’d used to stay up late reading well past his bedtime. His eyes darted to
one of the books on the floor. The cover read The Mystery of Cabin Island.
Clearly, the dream was inspired by his late-night reading. He could tell the
exact spot where he’d left off and fallen asleep from the deep crease in the
spine.
Barrie loved reading mystery books more than anything. He loved the
way they made his heart thump in excitement as he read faster and faster,
his fingers flipping the pages to get to the end and discover how the
characters solved the case. In real life, he often found himself sneaking off
to look for secret treasures and slipping down dark hallways and into places
he didn’t belong. He wished his real life was as exciting as that of the band
of sleuthing brothers from his books.
Before he could remember if he’d solved the mystery and found the
hidden treasure in his dream, the door to his bedroom burst open and
startled him, making the whole thing evaporate from his mind.
Bright, artificial light spilled in from the hallway, making his eyes tear
up. He ducked under the pillow once more.
“Is my little guy ready for a brand-new day?” Mom called in a singsong
voice. “The early bird gets the worm!”
Getting a worm? That’s how she was trying to motivate him to wake
up?
Barrie couldn’t understand how anyone could be this cheerful so early,
let alone on a school day. It was one of life’s greatest mysteries, even more
than the ones in his books.
“I’m up…I’m up…I swear,” Barrie muttered. He tried to sound
convincing.
But even he knew he’d failed.
“Don’t make me come back up here,” she warned, shifting into her stern
mom voice like she’d flipped a light switch. It was another one of her
superpowers. “You’re almost twelve now,” she went on. “You know what
that means.”
“Uh, what?” Barrie said, his voice muffled by the pillow that was
keeping the light from searing his eyeballs. He lifted his head and tried to
pry them open again. His mom looked blurry.
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