Category: Children Publisher: Lulu.com
Type: Fiction
Pages: 62
Copyright: April 2009
ISBN-13: 9780557063338
Twelve-year-old Mary Joyce Bandwilly believes she's seen a Bigfoot. No, she is sure she's seen one. A favorite teacher hides out watching for the animal--with a weapon. Does she plan to kill it? She claims she doesn't believe in Bigfoot. So why the gun?
Eye of the Beast is a 62 page book written for children on the subject of Bigfoot. It is a fictional story.
Excerpt
"Oh dear! Oh dear! What ever must you think?" Mrs. LowSam sputtered after snatching the gun up and tucking it back into her pocket.
"Why do you have a gun?"
"Mary Joyce, dear, I need to talk to you. It isn't really as bad as it looks," she said while bending down at the dumpster to retrieve her forest-green backpack from behind it. The silver gun again slid from her pocket and clanged to a spinning stop at the corner of the dumpster.
Beth was walking back to them when she raised a hand in greeting to a security guard coming toward her just ten or so feet behind Mary Joyce and Mrs. LowSam. They turned in unison to see why Beth was waving. Mrs. LowSam, as her face drained of color, quickly but carefully nudged the small gun completely under the dumpster with the toe of her gym shoe.
"Ladies," the friendly guard said, touching his hat in greeting. He walked on by.
Mary Joyce knew the man, for often her mother asked the guard to escort her to her car on nights she had to stay late, making the cash register tape balance with the money in its drawer.
"Let's go inside and I'll buy us all an ice cream cone. We can talk, then."
Mrs. LowSam bent agin, presenting her wide posterior, but this time not in fun. She retrieved the gun and put it in a zippered pocket of her backpack. "Let me take this pack to my car."
The girls followed their gym teacher, both wondering what sort of story would come of discovering this respected instructor, packing a gun behind Broadway Mall.
