Chapter 1 ANywHERE buT HERE o Adelaide awoke with a start and looked around her shadowy bedroom trying to get oriented It was the middle of the night and she’d had a nightmare again but not the usual kind There were no monsters trying to get her no cliffs she was falling from It was quite the opposite It was that her father was still alive and they were plan ning to go on a hike and an adventure together just the two of them But that couldn’t be she thought as she lay back on her pillow staring into the blackness Her father had died almost a year 3
The Hidden Forest 4 ago Now it was just her mother her younger brother Louis and last but definitely not least Dash their Jack Russell terrier Adelaide lay in her four poster bed thinking She grabbed her explorer’s head lamp hanging from one of the bedposts put it on and flicked on the high beam Adelaide looked like a fairly normal girl of twelve years old but she wasn’t Blond hair blue eyes and a love of blueberry pie would put her right in the mix but really she loved anything that was different Adelaide hated the ordinary All she wanted was to be grown-up and become the world-famous explorer she knew she was deep down inside and go off in search of the extraordinary There was so much to do and see that her time as a kid was just being wasted she thought as she stared at the posters of exotic places on her walls There was one of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and who could re sist the map of the lost city of the Incas Machu Picchu in Peru She looked over at the aerial photograph of Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean close to where Amelia Earhart disappeared during her solo flight around the world How brave she was Adelaide thought as she reached for her dog
Anywhere but Here 5 eared biography of Amelia She didn’t open it just held on to it something she loved to do at night when it was dark and she felt all alone Someday she’d follow in her footsteps she’d make sure of it Adelaide thought as she drifted off to sleep
