A World of TroubleBy Rebecca Douglass
My name is Mattie May Scott, and I am in a world of trouble.
I mutter the words under my breath while I’m standing ankle deep in water and trouble. Pretending this is a story makes it less scary. If things had gone the way I planned, it would be a story about running off on a lark to go to Conconully and see an aeroplane fly. Instead, it turns out to be about getting myself and my best friend into maybe more trouble than we know how to handle.
It’s Daddy’s fault for telling me about the aeroplane at the fair.
“Mattie! Stop woolgathering and grab ahold of this!” Gordon’s shout yanks me right out of my thoughts and back to the trouble we’re in. This is no story I’m making up. I shake my head to clear it and take a grip on the log Gordon’s trying to m
