CHAPTER TENI was to turn twelve in early September. That event alone might have rattled the world at the end of a quiet summer, but what happened only two months earlier was destined to shake every living creature on nearby earth. Jason Lipton got a car, and not just any car. And the chain of events all began early in the morning on the fifth of July.
I went to the barn when the light above the side door clicked to life, casting its dreary yellow glow into the maples nearby. I picked up the empty grain pail and headed for the barn. I scooped a pail of cracked corn and set it to the floor near the door. Zach and Booger were there, moving in the dim light, preparing to depart in the coolness of early morning.
Booger was always anxious, but when he saw me, he tried to come out with somethin
