the loons
Piquette Tonnerre was daughter of Lazarus. She had long black hair and her broad coarse-featured face bore on expression Piqutte was thirteen years old. She was older than Vanessa, but they were together in the same grade. Piquette failed several grades, because her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork was negligible. She missed a lot of school because she had tuberculosis of the bone, and had once spent months in hospital Piquette's voice was hoarse and she was limping when she was walking. She wore grimy cotton dresses that were always miles too long. Jules Tonnerre built a small square cabin which was made of poplar poles and chinked with mud. He Built it about fifty years before, when he came back from Batoche with a bullet in his thigh. Jules had only intended to stay the winter in the Wachakwa Valley. The cottage on Diamond Lake had a sign on the roadway bore in austere letters name MacLead. It was a large cottage; it was on the lakefront. Everything around the cottage were ferns, and sharp-branched raspberry bushes, and moss that had grown over fallen tree trunks. Above the backdoor there was the broad moose antlers that hung there. Vanessa loved the summer at Diamond
In my opinion this is a very interesting book, I enjoyed reading it a lot. Although the ending wasn't very nice, I think this book was suspenseful until the end. I would recommend this book to young people who like being kept in suspense. At night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon. All around, the spruce trees grew tall, branches blankly sharp against the sky. The loons rose like phantom birds from the nest on the shove, and flew out onto the dark still surface of the water. Piquette felt really good about Dr. MacLead. She thought that he was a really good man. She even told Vanessa that Dr. MacLead was the only person in Manawaka that ever has done anything good to her. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ At Diamond's Lake the MacLead cottage had been sold after Vanessa father's death. The small pier which her father had built was gone. Instead there was a large and solid pier built by the government. Galloping Mountain was how a National Park was named, and Diamond Lake had been re-named to Lake Wapobata. The one store had become a several dozen store, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flinching resort
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Approximate Word count = 827
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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