orca echoes Ospreys in Danger Pamela McDowell Illustrations by Kasia Charko ORCA BOOK PUBLISHERS
For Don who introduced me to the wind bears and red rocks of Waterton many moons ago
I love the smell of Mondays Cricket McKay tilted her nose up and closed her eyes Her real name was Jenna but everybody called her Cricket It started back when she was five and collected hundreds of crickets on her grandpa’s farm hoping to start a cricket zoo She eventually released the crickets but the nickname stuck You’re crazy Cricket Mondays don’t smell said her best friend Shilo Cricket opened her eyes I’m crazy She watched Shilo tiptoe along the top of the stone fence beside the sidewalk The fence wasn’t high 11 Chapter One
