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    Chatman's Corner
    Chatman's Corner
    Chatman's Corner
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    Chatman's Corner

    By Richard Parise

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       In the fall of nineteen sixty-eight, due to the death of his step father, Andrew and his mother are forced to move from their lavish estate in London to the housing projects at Chatman's Corner. On his first night out, Andrew is befriended by Napper Holloway, the leader of the Chatman's Corner Gang. Together the two boys, along with the rest of the gang, begin an adventure which would soon change their lives. Danger lurks around every corner as the gang gets involved in the search for a missing girl. Upon surviving their ordeal, the kids learn a valuable life lesson about the dangers of bullying.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Parise
    Release dateApr 2, 2019
    ISBN9781386574712
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      Chatman's Corner - Richard Parise

      This book was written as an aid for teachers in their quest to end bullying in our schools. The author taught elementary and middle school for over thirty years.

      This book is dedicated to my childhood friends.

      Chatman’s Corner

      Chapter One - Nicknames

      Welcome to Chatman’s Corner. My name is Napper Holloway. Of course that’s not my real name. It’s Billy, but all my friends call me Napper on account of the way my mom use to always make me take noon naps. I don’t take them no more, now that I’ve turned twelve, but the name kind’a stuck to me.

      Me and my friends meet here at the corner store every Friday night. It’s kind of early yet which is why there ain’t nobody else here but they’ll be along soon enough. This place where we’re at now is old man Chatman’s store. He don’t much like us kids hangin’ around here but he don’t dare try and do nothin’ about it. Me and the gang’s feared from here all the way past Barry Creek. Now we never bothered to measure that out but most guess it comes to about two hours walkin’. Little Hinesie says four hours walkin’ but he’s a lousy guesser and he walks real slow. Once he guessed on twenty trues and falses on a history test and got them all wrong. We figured that’s got to be some sort of a world’s record.

      Well getting back to what I was sayin’, old man Chatman’s store is as old as The Corner. It’s where this place gets its name. You see, old man Chatman’s father used to run it before him and his father before him. They had owned most all the land around here until the city up and bought it from them. That’s when they built Chatman’s Corner.

      The way I figure it, this is kind of a place where they put all the poor people to live. We’re sort of tucked away out here all by ourselves. They built up about fifty or so houses all bunched up so’s not to waste space. Of course they’re all mostly old now. A few of them even’s got the windows all boarded up. The one I live in ain’t too bad though on account of the way my mom takes good care of it and all.

      Out in back a ways is a big swamp in which is Barry Creek. I figure I’m pretty lucky to have a swamp right out in my own backyard. We catch all kinds of frogs and stuff back there. My ma, she don’t care too much for it though. I think it’s mostly because of the way Petey keeps draggin’ up those big black rats into the kitchen. My mom says one of these days that cat’s gonna get done in down there. I kind’a doubt that though cause Petey’s a good twice their size and when he curls all up in back, he looks meaner than any mutt around here.

      We also got our own school out here at The Corner. We figured they built it to keep us from havin’ to ride all the way into the city. It ain’t a real bad school ‘cept for the building is kind of old. There’s marks on the walls where kids scraped in that go way back. One of them reads, Teddy and Jane-1953. That’s the oldest one that’s ever been found. Of course that doesn’t count the one that reads Brenda loves Bert-1886, but we wrote that one in last year.

      Here comes Rock Hen Perdy. ‘Course Rock Hen ain’t his real name neither. We call Jimmy, Rock Hen, because of the way he killed two of Mrs. McCaulley’s chickens with his old slingshot. That might not sound all that great but Jimmy did it with just one stone! Caromed it around that barnyard like nothing you ever saw. Two hens ate dirt when it was all over. Rock Hen was lucky though that we got Freddy Crawford on account of the way Freddy wants to be in our gang so bad, he’ll take the blame for most anything.

      You see Freddy is a scrawny red haired kid. He wears these thick glasses that make your head spin when you try and look out of ‘em. Me and the gang weren’t gonna have nothin’ to do with him but the kid will do anything for us but eat worms. Bobby Dormy will eat worms but Dormy’s got some screws loose. Anyhow, all we got to do is threaten to kick Freddy out of the gang if he don’t say he did what one of us was being blamed for, and poor Freddy would go running to turn himself in. He got to see more whippin’ stick that way than Ketchup Johnson and Ketch saw a whole lot a whippin’ stick. Ketch has got marks on his backside that looks worse than the hives!

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