After that, however, she discovered that there was hope one class was different from the rest.Ī different-looking sort of teacher-Evie thought a happier-seeming fellow who wore a whistle around his neck-propped the doors open and led a noisy march from the building.
The short break raised her spirits, only to give way to another longer stint at her desk, and a subsequent drop in spirits. Her compliance took a tremendous effort though her legs wiggled and her feet kicked a bit, she survived the torturous morning until recess.
The first hour of her first day Evie was sternly reminded on several occasions to remain seated at her desk. And what that meant was full days anchored to a desk. But after a pleasant summer of relative freedom, that fall she found herself back in school once more-this time in a larger classroom within a larger building. When the weather turned hot that year Evie’s mother stopped bringing her to the place of stillness, and she assumed she had escaped school’s perils. Her mother had seemed quite sold on the place, even before they arrived, but needless to say, energetic Evie was far less than thrilled. In a small classroom lined with toys and stacked mats for taking naps upon, Evie was expected to waste entire mornings at a desk, stone-still and silent. The games her mother called Get Back Here and No Running in the House were Evie’s favorites. Whenever she would run (speed-waddle, really) she found that her mother would give chase, and by Evie’s reckoning, a roaring good time was had by all.
The infatuation began soon after her first steps. Long before she knew why, Evie Brooks lived to run. states: New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, as well as portions of the Canadian province of Quebec. The Great North Woods consist of some 26 million acres of sparsely populated forestlands, encompassing portions of four northeastern U.S. Any resemblance to persons or animals living or dead is purely coincidental.Ĭover art by Ravven “Mankind has a habit of burning the library before reading its books.”
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