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    Jake Reynolds: Chicken or Eagle?: Chicken or Eagle?
    Jake Reynolds: Chicken or Eagle?: Chicken or Eagle?
    Jake Reynolds: Chicken or Eagle?: Chicken or Eagle?
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    Jake Reynolds: Chicken or Eagle?: Chicken or Eagle?

    By Sara Leach

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    Eleven-year-old Jake Reynolds wants to save seal pups from the talons of bald eagles, protect his little sister Sierra and confront the wolf he is sure stalks Hidalgo Island. But his best friend Emily calls him a chicken, comforts Sierra when she falls and doesn't believe the wolf exists. Even as Jake hears howling in the night, part of him hopes Emily is right; he may dream of being a hero, but he is terrified by the thought of running into a wolf. When Jake leads Emily into the woods in search of adventure, he finds more than he bargained for—and discovers things about himself that he never knew existed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateOct 1, 2009
    ISBN9781554694884
    Jake Reynolds: Chicken or Eagle?: Chicken or Eagle?
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    Sara Leach

    Sara Leach is a writer and teacher-librarian in Whistler, British Columbia. She loves hiking the nearby alpine trails with her husband and two children. Fortunately, they have never been stranded in any mountain huts, although they have endured many rainy days. For more information, visit www.saraleach.com.

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      Book preview

      Jake Reynolds - Sara Leach

      Jake Reynolds:

      CHICKEN OR EAGLE?

      Jake Reynolds:

      CHICKEN OR EAGLE?

      SARA LEACH

      ORCA BOOK PUBLISHERS

      Text copyright © 2009 Sara Leach

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Leach, Sara, 1971-

      Jake Reynolds : chicken or eagle? / written by Sara Leach.

      Electronic Monograph

      Issued also in print format.

      ISBN 9781554691463(pdf) -- ISBN 9781554694884 (epub)

      I. Title.

      PS8623.E253J33 2009     jC813’.6    C2009-902806-9

      First published in the United States, 2009

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2009928212

      Summary: Jake dreams of being a superhero, but he’s not exactly brave, especially when it comes to the wolves on the island where he and his family are staying.

      Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

      Typesetting by Bruce Collins

      Cover artwork by Ken Dewar

      Author photo by Bob Brett

      In Canada:

      Orca Book Publishers

      PO Box 5626, Station B

      Victoria, BC Canada

      V8R 6S4

      In the United States:

      Orca Book Publishers

      PO Box 468

      Custer, WA USA

      98240-0468

      www.orcabook.com

      12 11 10 09 • 4 3 2 1

      To Ben and Julia

      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Acknowledgments

      Chapter One

      Jake kicked at an empty crab shell. He flipped it over with the toe of his sandal, exposing the fuzzy bits that stuck out from the sides of the crab like thick whiskers. His long shadow extended over the rocky beach. Part of his brain was aware of the crab and the rocks, but part of it kept thinking about the wolf.

      His best friend, Emily, fidgeted beside him. C’mon, Jake, she said, grabbing his arm and pulling him down the beach. He pulled away from her grasp. I don’t know, Emily. Mr. Timmins is supposed to be kind of creepy. And he doesn’t like visitors.

      Don’t be such a chicken, Emily said. He can’t be that bad. She put her hands on her hips. I thought you wanted to talk to him about the wolf. The wolf you claim is on the island.

      There really is a wolf. I’m sure of it.

      Emily rolled her eyes. Uh-huh. Sure. A wolf on Hidalgo, the safest place in the world.

      Jake opened his mouth to argue with her. Emily held up a hand to cut him off.

      Don’t bother, she said. I’ve heard it all before. That’s why we have to talk to Mr. Timmins.

      Jake squinted through the heat waves coming off the sand and rocks that stretched toward Mr. Timmins’s house. The faded wood of the cabin blended into the forest around it, but even this far away, Jake could see the bright orange buoys hanging off the deck. Flashes of silver glinted in the afternoon sun. Jake wondered what was shining. It was like a lighthouse, warning people to stay away. He wanted to talk to the man who claimed to have seen a wolf, but he hadn’t planned on marching up to his house and asking him about it.

      He’d heard that Mr. Timmins once used a shotgun to scare away some older kids. He hadn’t fired it, but still.

      Emily flapped her arms and imitated a chicken. "Bawk, bawk, bawk."

      I’m not a chicken. Jake’s face flushed. I’ll come. But if something bad happens, I’m blaming you. He scuffed across the beach to the edge of the water and splashed through it, churning up the calm surface with his feet. Emily followed him. She was always looking for fun things to do and getting them into trouble. Like the time she’d convinced him to slide down the sandbanks even though they were out of bounds, and he’d jabbed his foot on a stick and had to go to the hospital on the mainland for three stitches.

      You don’t have to be mad, she said.

      Jake crossed his arms and pressed his lips together. He stared at the ocean. I’m not.

      Whatever.

      On the horizon, a line of white smoke twisted into the air from the pulp mill on Vancouver Island. Jake was glad the smell from the mill didn’t reach Hidalgo. It reminded him of farts—the silent ones his dad let out and pretended weren’t his.

      Hey! Something was running down his back.

      It tickled, and then it pinched. He flapped his shirt and twisted around, trying to see what it was. Emily doubled over laughing. Jake hopped up and down until the pinching stopped and a small purple crab dropped into the water. It drifted to the rocks on the bottom, its pincers raised in attack mode.

      Emily covered her mouth with her hands and giggled, her eyes dancing.

      Jake brushed water droplets and wet sand off his neck. Why’d you do that?

      Relax. It was only a rock crab, Emily said. Their pincers are smaller than my pinky nail. There’s no way it hurt.

      Jake thought about turning around and going home. Why should he

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