But I love them. I tell them all the time. I’ll pick Hail up and cuddle him to my face in that way that makes his ears get all twitchy. I’ll make loose fists and hold them up to Marigold and Jupiter’s cheeks. They’ll lick my knuckles. “I love you,” I tell them. It’s always been really easy for me to say. I’ve never been one of those people who can’t say it.
It’s October 4th. Just starting to get cold, but it gets cold fast around here.
God, I hope they’re okay.
I’m up way too early now that I don’t have to feed the animals, but I don’t know what else to do but get dressed and get ready for school. It takes like two minutes, and now what?
HANNAH MOSKOWITZ is the author of Break; Invincible Summer; Gone, Gone, Gone; and the middlegrade novel Zombie Tag. She lives in Maryland and pretends it’s the part on the ocean.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moskowitz, Hannah.
Teeth / Hannah Moskowitz.
p. cm.
Summary: “Rudy’s life is flipped upside down when his family moves to a remote, magical island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother, Dylan. While Dylan recovers, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper into his loneliness.” —Provided by publisher.
[1. Mermen—Fiction. 2. Supernatural—Fiction.
3. Cystic fibrosis—Fiction. 4. Brothers—Fiction.
5. Loneliness—Fiction. 6. Islands—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M84947Te 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2012019114
ISBN 978-1-4424-6532-9 (hc) ISBN 978-1-4424-4946-6 (pbk) ISBN 978-1-4424-4947-3 (eBook)
Hannah Moskowitz, Teeth
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