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    A Hurricane in Your Suitcase
    A Hurricane in Your Suitcase
    A Hurricane in Your Suitcase
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    A Hurricane in Your Suitcase

    By Brian Bakos

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    Brett's lies are getting him into serious trouble. Can big brother Joe stop admiring himself long enough to help turn things around? The brothers verbally joust with each other as they travel toward the ultimate test which will decide if Brett becomes a 'person of substance' or stays the way he is. Children's humor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Bakos
    Release dateFeb 26, 2014
    ISBN9781311470676
    A Hurricane in Your Suitcase
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    Brian Bakos

    I like to write and travel. I'm from the Detroit area originally and try to see other places as often as possible. My most recent travels have been to China, Ecuador, and Belize. Am thinking of my next destination. It's wonderful how travel inspires the writing process. Attended Michigan State University and Alma College.Not much more than that. Anything else I have to say comes out in my books. If you really want to know more, please contact me through my website, https://www.theb2.net/. May life bring you many blessings!

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      A Hurricane in Your Suitcase - Brian Bakos

      A HURRICANE IN YOUR SUITCASE

      by Brian Bakos

      Cover art: Tony Ortiz

      Copyright 2014 Brian Bakos / revised 07–2019

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to anyone else. If you want to share this book, please buy an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please return to Smashwords.com and obtain your own copy. Thanks for respecting the author’s hard work.

      Table of Contents

      One: The Ice Cream Thief

      Two: The Quest Begins

      Three: Things Get Serious

      Four: Final Test

      Brian’s Other Books

      One: The Ice Cream Thief

      1. Ice Cream Attack

      I can hardly believe my eyes. Outside the window is all summery bright and hot, with a clear sky – in the middle of April!

      The week of rain is finally over. The gloomy blahs I’ve been suffering vanish into thin air like a puff of smoke from my Grandpa’s pipe.

      I strum my guitar, hitting some new chords. Then I set it aside, too excited to keep playing.

      This is a day for celebration. This is a day for ice cream, and I need some right now. I dash to the kitchen, almost knocking over the TV table. No TV this Saturday morning. I’m going outside with my ice cream!

      Joe is sitting at the kitchen table eating a chocolate-covered ice cream bar. He’s dressed in his bike outfit with shorts and colorful shirt. He is even wearing his padded gloves with the cut-off fingertips. He calls himself "The future Tour de France winner."

      This is delicious, he says. You ought to try one, Brett.

      That’s what I’m thinking.

      I reach into the freezer and pull out an empty ice cream box.

      What? I gasp.

      Joe smiles.

      I drag over a chair, stand on it, and stick myself halfway inside the freezer. Fish sticks and frozen hamburgers tumble away in my desperate search.

      If you stay in there much longer, you’ll turn into an ice cream bar yourself, Joe says.

      I pull my chilled arms out of the freezer and hold up the empty box. Very funny. There were supposed to be two left.

      Yeah, Joe says, the other one was delicious, too.

      That’s not fair!

      Joe shrugs. You have to act fast around here, Brett. You know that.

      It does me no good to argue. Joe is the big junior high, soon-to-be high school kid who can do whatever he wants, and I’m just the little grade school twerp.

      Well, Mom will hear about this! She’s in the basement washing clothes. I charge down the steps to find her. She meets me at the bottom.

      What’s wrong, Brett?

      She has this scared look in her eyes like she did last summer when that hornet stung me on the neck.

      Joe ate all the ice cream!

      Oh, Mom says.

      The worried expression leaves her face, and the tired, impatient one takes over. She goes back to the washing machine.

      That’s too bad, she says.

      She pours detergent over the laundry. Bong! goes the lid, and water starts sloshing around.

      Too bad? This is downright horrible.

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