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    Addison Addley and the Trick of the Eye
    Addison Addley and the Trick of the Eye
    Addison Addley and the Trick of the Eye
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    Addison Addley and the Trick of the Eye

    By Melody DeFields McMillan

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    Addison's mother wants to sell their comfortable old house and move into a townhouse in a new development across town#a shoe box near a shoe factory, Addison calls it. As usual, Addison's brain goes into overdrive as he tries to solve two problems: first he must get his mother to see their old house in a new light, and then he must figure out who is responsible for a rash of neighborhood break-ins that make his mother feel unsafe. With the help of his friend Sam, he puts his own unique spin on optical illusions (and home decor) and ends up surprising everyone, even himself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateOct 1, 2009
    ISBN9781554695676
    Addison Addley and the Trick of the Eye
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    Melody DeFields McMillan

    Melody DeFields McMillan is a teacher who lives in Simcoe, Ontario, not far from where she grew up. When she's not writing, she's enjoying all that nature has to offer. Her first book about the irrepressible Addison, Addison Addley and the Things That Aren't There, was nominated for a Silver Birch Award.

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      Addison Addley and the Trick of the Eye - Melody DeFields McMillan

      Addison Addley

      AND THE TRICK OF THE EYE

      MELODY DEFIELDS MCMILLAN

      ORCA BOOK PUBLISHERS

      Text copyright © 2009 Melody DeFields McMillan

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      McMillan, Melody DeFields, 1956-

      Addison Addley and the trick of the eye / Melody DeFields McMillan.

      Electronic Monograph

      Issued also in print format.

      ISBN 9781554691906(pdf) -- ISBN 9781554695676 (epub)

      I. Title.

      PS8625.M54A66 2009 jC813’.6 C2009-903347-X

      First published in the United States, 2009

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2009929318

      Summary: Addison’s mother wants to move, so Addison uses optical illusions and his own overheated imagination to convince her to stay in their old house.

      Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

      Typesetting by Bruce Collins

      Cover artwork by Peter Ferguson

      Author photo by Justin McMillan

      In Canada:

      Orca Book Publishers

      PO Box 5626, Station B

      Victoria, BC Canada

      V8R 6S4

      In the United States:

      Orca Book Publishers

      PO Box 468

      Custer, WA USA

      98240-0468

      www.orcabook.com

      12 11 10 09 • 4 3 2 1

      To my little family and my big family

      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter One

      Sometimes, you’ve just got to expect the unexpected. That’s what I should have been doing last Sunday when Mom dropped the bombshell on me. It wasn’t a big bombshell, just four little words. Four little words too many.

      We need to move, she said.

      I choked. My raspberry smoothie didn’t taste so smooth anymore.

      I was right in the middle of adding peanut-butter chips to the grocery list. First I thought maybe she was just trying to scare me into doing a better job of being in charge of the weekly budget. Ever since I had a math catastrophe at school, she’s been making me keep the budget. She tells me how much we spend, and I record it. I’m in charge of figuring out what percentage we spend on each category, like food or entertainment. Mom likes to analyze things. You’d think she would have analyzed me enough by now to know that I’m not great at numbers. Besides, if it were up to me, I’d spend a bigger percentage on entertainment. I’d buy some new video games and invite my friends over. They’d bring a bunch of chips and pop, so that would take care of the food percentage too. Mom doesn’t usually try to scare me though, because she knows I’m not much afraid of anything. I’m probably the bravest guy in my grade-five class.

      Maybe I’d heard her wrong.

      Move, like in moving the furniture again? I asked hopefully. Last summer we had moved the old couch fourteen times to get it to look just right in the newly painted living room. That old couch had ended up exactly where it started, right up against the window. My back ached just thinking about moving it again, but if it was a choice of moving the couch or moving me, the couch was the hands-down winner.

      Mom shook her head as she dished up a bowl of vegetarian chili.

      Maybe Mom’s astronomy club was doing weird things to her brain again. Sometimes she thinks too much. She was probably worried that the stars weren’t lined up right and that we needed to be in a different place in case a meteoroid came crashing down. She’s always second-guessing herself. Or third-or fourth-guessing. She really thought too hard the time we painted the living room. I thought her head was going to explode. She covered the entire wall in little paint sample chips and left it that way for six months. She couldn’t decide on a color. Even after we painted it, she couldn’t decide on the color and thought we should repaint it. Then she thought people would think we were crazy to paint the same wall twice in two days. We never did repaint it, but I still catch her staring at it sometimes. Personally I would have just left all of those little paint chips up there. They would have saved me a lot of work.

      The astronomy angle gave me an idea. You mean move, like how the earth moves around the sun? We’re moving all the time, right? I’d picked up a couple of things from all her star talk, which surprised me because usually things like that just float right out of my brain. I have a problem remembering school stuff too. Unless it’s important, like how many times I can hand in my homework late before I

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