Where's Burgess?
By Laurie Elmquist and David Parkins
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Laurie Elmquist
Laurie Elmquist is the author of several books for young readers including Where's Burgess? which was short-listed for both the Chocolate Lily Award and the Silver Birch Award. She holds an MA in Literature and creative writing from the University of Windsor in Ontario and has been published in several magazines and anthologies. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Where's Burgess? - Laurie Elmquist
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
He went missing on a Tuesday. I’ve made a poster. LOST FROG. Answers to Burgess. Might be scared. BIG reward. I’ve written our phone number in red letters.
It doesn’t even look like him,
says my sister, Hazel, staring at the picture. She’s twelve, and I’m nine.
It does,
I say.
Are those teeth?
she asks.
Yeah.
And eyebrows?
Yeah.
She flips her hair off her shoulders. Most people put up a photo.
I need to get their attention,
I say.
Mom slides a piece of toast in front of me. I’ll photocopy it at work,
she says. You can put the posters up after school.
Paper?
says my sister. What about the trees?
Mom sighs. This one time.
Mom works in recycling. Dad says she’s on a mission to get everyone to reduce their trash for a whole year to an amount that will fit in a zip-lock sandwich bag. He says most people can’t do it. He says he couldn’t do it. He had too much garbage for Mom to handle. He lives in another city now. I look down at my toast slathered with peanut butter, the way I like it. I push it away.
I’ll eat it,
says Hazel, taking the toast and biting into it. Her teeth grind away, and peanut butter smears the side of her cheek. I’m sure we’ll find him,
she says. How far can he go?
He might have caught a ride,
I say, pushing my chair back.
She shakes her head slowly back and forth. Sometimes I wonder about you.
She’s okay for an older sister because she likes to ride bikes and go places together. But we don’t always see the same things even if we’re standing right beside each other looking at them. She sees a frog. I see Burgess and everything he’s capable of.
Everybody ready?
asks my mom, picking up her computer bag. Teeth brushed? Reece, do you have your math homework?
I grab my multiplication sheet and stuff it in my pack. I follow them out to our VW bus. Burgess is out there alone. How can they act like nothing has happened?
In class I draw a few more posters while the teacher reads to us. I draw Burgess with a suitcase under his arm. I give him shoes.
After school I put up