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    Ebook75 pages53 minutes

    Shadow

    By Mere Joyce

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    Fourteen-year-old Preston Craft is organizing a film festival for his school's film club when a crime occurs.

    One of the films goes missing two days before the festival begins, Preston is convinced it was stolen and is determined to get it back. The only indication of the theft is a suspicious shadow that Preston noticed right before he discovered the film was gone—but Preston is legally blind and no one quite believes him. However, not unlike the gritty private eyes in the classic black-and-white films he adores, Preston refuses to give up. Can he solve the mystery based on such a shady clue?

    This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateJan 30, 2018
    ISBN9781459816466
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    Mere Joyce

    Mere Joyce writes short stories as well as novels and holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario. As both a writer and a librarian, she understands the importance of reading and the impact the right story can have on young minds. She lives in Post Road, Nova Scotia with her family.

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      Shadow - Mere Joyce

      Chapter One

      There is no greater place on earth than the cinema. I don’t mean the big chain movie theaters with fancy seats and overpriced food. I mean the old cinemas. The kind that smell like butter and stale popcorn. The kind with threadbare seats. The kind with sticky floors. The kind with velvety panels barely clinging to the walls.

      Vi holds my hand as we walk through the lobby of my favorite cinema, The Chestnut.

      Tell me about the posters, I say as she guides me past the ticket booth and into the cinema’s lobby. She doesn’t have to guide me. I know this place almost as well as I know my own living room. But I always let Vi hold my hand. Her skin is soft and warm.

      Same posters as last week, Preston, she laughs. "Dracula Versus the Zombies, Sweet Tooth: The Untold Love Story of the World’s Two Greatest Chocolatiers and Secret Agent Granny."

      You’re making those up. I nudge her, and she lets out a chuckle.

      You’ll never know, she teases.

      Vivien Henry always teases me. If it were someone else, maybe I would be bothered by it. But Vi is one of the few people who knew me before I was blind. We met when we were babies. Our mothers are friends, and we’ve grown up together. Besides, I can barely remember a time before I got glaucoma and lost my vision. So it doesn’t bother me when Vi makes up fake movie titles and tries to pass them off as real films. I think it’s actually pretty awesome. Vi’s a serious girl usually. I’m lucky to be one of the few people she jokes around with.

      Come on, she says now, leading me past the concession stands. Mrs. Colander’s waiting for us up in the booth.

      Mrs. Colander is the teacher in charge of our school’s film club. She’s the one who helped us organize the amateur film festival The Chestnut will be hosting two nights from now.

      Are the others here yet? I ask.

      Janelle’s babysitting, so she can’t come, Vi says as we head into the theater. When we start up the stairs leading to the projection booth, she is moving so fast my arm is completely outstretched in front of me.

      One stair at a time, Vi, I remind her. She stops and waits for me to catch up before she continues forward again.

      Sorry, she says. She gives my hand a squeeze, and my whole arm tingles. So Janelle’s not coming. And Nico’s never been on time for anything in his life.

      I smile. She’s right about Nico. He is always stumbling into class well after the bell rings.

      I can hear the sound of nails clacking on a keyboard when we enter the projection booth.

      The typing stops. Hello, Mr. Craft.

      Hey, Mrs. Colander, I say, feeling my way over to a seat against the back wall of the small room.

      Vi stands beside me. Her foot bumps against mine, but I don’t think she notices.

      My mom hooked the laptop up to the projection system before she left this afternoon, she says to me. "Mrs. Colander just tested it. When we hit Play on the laptop, the movies appear on the big screen."

      Vi’s parents bought The Chestnut before she was born. They divorced when Vi was eight, but they still run the theater together. Vi and I grew up in this cinema. It’s the best spot for the film festival. I still can’t believe Vi’s mom gave us permission to use it on Friday night.

      Okay, so I think everything’s ready to go for Friday, Mrs. Colander says. She begins typing again, her long fingernails loud against the keyboard. I’m just finishing up my report for Principal Saunders. I’ll email it to myself, and then I’ll be ready to go. Are you sure you don’t need anything else from me?

      No, we’ve got it covered, Mrs. Colander, Vi says in the sweet voice she always uses with authority figures.

      All right, well, I’ll leave you to it, Mrs. Colander says. She finishes with the computer. Then her chair scrapes against the floor as she stands up.

      Thanks again for letting us help out, Vi says.

      Not a problem. I can hear the smile in Mrs. Colander’s voice. Thank your parents again for letting us use the theater. It’s a great venue for our film festival.

      I will. Need me to see you out?

      "No, I’m good. Good night, you two. Have fun screening

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