![]() ![]() Then we were falling, and falling around us, too, were strange vehicles, like horseless carriages or automobiles, but sleek and smooth and all shiny colors. Fire shot up around me, and through the smoke I saw three shadows reaching out their hands to me. But unlike real gold it was not solid, and seemed to melt away under my hand. Then suddenly the bridge was shaking, and I grabbed the golden girder for support. "The bridge was a fabulous golden bridge that spanned the entire bay.slowly I became aware that there was a dark-haired girl at my side. ![]() ![]() ![]() in the past was haunted by the fear of earthquakes.Īnd in one of the last letters, V.'s nightmare is described, and Violet realizes to her horror that it is a warning: comes Violet's way, almost as if it is meant. This letter is just the first in a mysterious paper chase- more and more information about Baby V. in 1906, whose life seems to mirror Violet's own. When her parents by a dilapidated building in downtown San Francisco, a small earthquake dislodges an old letter, written to a girl called Baby V. She's determined to take her full place alongside her sisters.but how can she get them to take her seriously? She the odd one out in looks as well, as her sisters are identical, and operate as a team. Violet has always been the baby of her family, even though she's technically the same age as her two triplet sisters-she was the only frail one, and needed heart surgery as a child, so she's always been protected and hovered over. Paperquake, by Kathryn Reiss (Harcourt, 1999, midde grade, 272 pages) ![]()
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