BY SUSHA GOLOMB - Free Kids Books

BY SUSHA GOLOMB

Copyright Susha Golomb 2019

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Chapter 1 -- The Beginning of the End Chapter 2 -- Sucked Away Chapter 3 -- Not a Rabbit Hole Chapter 4 -- Tree People Chapter 5 -- Tree Climbing Chapter 6 -- Treelevator Chapter 7 -- Tree Fruit Chapter 8 -- Nothing but Grass Chapter 9 -- More, Nothing but Grass Chapter 10 -- Sooo Hungry Chapter 11 -- Mermaid Interlude Chapter 12 -- Underwater Flashlights Chapter 13 -- Eyeball Art Chapter 14 -- Not a Garden Chapter 15 -- The Gift Chapter 16 -- Four Fat Fish Flashing, Flying, Flopping, and Feeling Fabulous Chapter 17 -- The Snared Sleepers Chapter 18 -- The Watcher Chapter 19 -- Earth Folding Chapter 20 -- No Bugs Chapter 21 -- Yellow Eyes Chapter 22 -- Not Enough Magic Chapter 23 -- Singing Grass Chapter 24 -- The Tower Room Chapter 25 -- This Time an Orange Tree Chapter 26 -- Buried Alive Chapter 27 -- What Gazunda had to Say Chapter 28 -- Revenge Chapter 29 -- Ruby Slippers? Chapter 30 -- Apple Blossom Time Chapter 31 -- Rainbow Magic Chapter 32 -- How Bea and Chum Saved Fairyland Chapter 33 -- Friends Forever? Chapter 34 -- The Time-Transport-Effect

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"Quit shoving."

"Well, move over then. You're hogging the whole sink." "I'm not.You're sticking your elbows out too far. There's no room here either...Eeew! You're drooling on me. That's disgusting." United in their mutual dislike of their real first names, Beatrice and Tanchum had always been best friends. "My elbows are in," Bea said. "Move over. I need extra room to floss. Don't bump. Oh, God, now look what you did." "What? What did I do?" Chum complained. "I didn't do anything." They were at Bea's house. The last sleepover of the summer. Next week was the beginning of middle school and the end of Chum and Bea. "Aagh! Da fos is caught on my woose toot," Bea wailed. "I can't ged it out. Ooo! Id's beeding. Ooo!" A few drops fell into the sink. "Just pull the string through, Bea. Here let me...Eeew. It is caught." "Watch it. You're puwing too hard," Bea whined. "Look oud. Ow!" "Hey, Bea! Look, it's out." "Quick, close the drain." They both grabbed for the handle as the tooth made its way unevenly toward the open drain. "I got it," Chum cried, holding up the tiny baby tooth, then remembering that it did not come out of her own mouth. "Yuck! It's all bloody and slimey." She nearly dropped it back in the sink, but Bea grabbed it first. "My tooth. This is so great," Bea cackled, sticking her face in the mirror to examine the new empty space while Chum hurriedly washed her hands. Dropping the tooth into the water cup, Bea opened her mouth wide and pulled the corner of her lip as far as it would go to get a better look. "My toof wasn't that loose yet." Bea said through finger-warped lips. "It oonwe came out because it got schtuck on da dental foss. Derefore, dis is a sign. Shometing important is going to happen."

Chum gazed briefly and with the usual pang of envy at the light passing through the fluffy network of tiny curls on Bea's head, then past the real Bea to the mirror Bea.

"It's a sign all right, TweedleBea," Chum said. "It's the end of the world as we know it."

Bea pulled her finger out, wiping her hands on the front of her t-shirt and looked at Chum in the mirror. Dark eyes met light eyes and Bea sighed, as she always did, every time she really noticed Chum's wonderful ? definitely not boring-brown ? china blue eyes.

"I don't mean school next week, TweedleChum," she said gently. She looked hard at her best friend's reflection. "Maybe..." Bea said, trying to back up her feeling with the kind of facts Chum always seemed to demand, "...maybe tonight we can go inside the mirror, into another world." Chum gave her The Look.

Bea tried again. "Down a rabbit hole?" she offered. Chum added eyerolling to The Look.

Bea threw up her hands. "I don't know," Bea said. "Something weird. Maybe we're supposed to meet the Tooth Fairy."

"The Tooth Fairy? Stop creeping me out, Bea. I'm not in the mood. Face it. Next week we start Middle School. No Tooth Fairy is going to come and rescue us from that. There will be a gazillion other kids and the only class we share is recess. That is, assuming we can even find each other."

"Bea," Chum whispered, "are you awake?"

"Yes," Bea whispered back, "What about you?" "What do you think, TweedleBea? Of course I'm awake. I'm asking the questions, aren't I?" It was morning. Early morning. Extremely early morning. Barely light. But there was some light, so it had to be morning. "So, look under your pillow already, TweedleTwit," Chum said, climbing out of her sleeping bag and sitting on the edge of Bea's bed. "Oh no," Bea clapped her hand to her head. "We forgot to tell my parents. My very last baby tooth and I forgot to tell them." She grabbed the pillow. Bea wanted to demonstrate her point by waving the uncollected tooth bag in Chum's face. "Hey, Chum. Did you tell anyone about the tooth?" "No, why?" "You're sure?" "Yes, why?" "Because it's not here." "It's got to be there," Chum whispered hoarsely. "You probably knocked it off the bed while you were sleeping." They searched all through the bedclothes, behind the bed, under the bed, but there was no bag and no tooth

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