Birdie's Book - Andrea Burden [52]
“And the message, too. Don’t forget, will you?” asked the elf.
“I won’t forget,” I assured him.
The little man leapt into the air and clapped his hands. He was gone in a flash, laughing as he bounded toward the boulders.
A thunderous rumbling and grating sound shook the ground. The stone wall was separating, making a space I could slip through. I didn’t know how long it would stay that way, so I slung the coat over my shoulder and ran, blood pounding in my ears and my boots pounding on the sand.
When I was six feet from the opening, the wall had stopped moving. The opening was barely wide enough for me to squeeze through sideways. With rock pressing me front and back, I sucked my breath in as I forced my way through. My coat dragged on the ground, and the hem caught on something I couldn’t see. I tugged, then pulled, to free it while I kept squeezing through the narrow opening. I pushed so hard to clear the stones that I landed in a bramble of berries when I fell through the gap.
The two halves of the wall slammed together behind me.
I stared at the towering wall with a strange sense of calm. I was out of breath and I was scraped and scratched, but I had survived. My mother had carved a D on my Kalis stick. She must have known I would be making this journey.
Biba’s voice and my destiny lay ahead—on the mountain called Dayling.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bozarth, Jan.
Birdie’s book / Jan Bozarth. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Fairy Godmother Academy; 1)
Summary: When twelve-year-old Birdie goes to meet her grandmother, who is
estranged from Birdie’s mother, she learns a secret which leads to fantastic adventures,
new understanding, and a renewed closeness among members of her family.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89290-5
[1. Fairy godmothers—Fiction. 2. Fairies—Fiction. 3. Grandmothers—Fiction.
4. Botany—Fiction. 5. Family—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.B6974Bi 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2008036258
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