![]() ![]() When a freewheeling new girl joins his class, Sam knows he has found someone who can help him solve the mystery of his own identity. Sam has to find out who he really is, but to investigate the contents of that box he needs a friend, a friend who can read and who will keep his secret. But Sam has the same intuitive skill with wood that Mack has and he still has Night Cat-the same cat-from his memory of that terrifying night. Sam is overwhelmed with fear-fear that Mack may not be his grandfather and that the stories he has heard of his parents may not be true. ![]() Sam knows that he is that little boy he remembers the sweater the boy is wearing, and with that memory come a flood of other scary memories-a dark house with the number 11, unhappy children, an angry woman, loud shouting, his cat cringing under the table, and someone pulling him from icy water and bringing him here, to the place where he and his grandfather live above the woodworking shop. At last he climbs out onto the roof and into the attic above his grandfather Mack's bedroom, and in an intriguing metal box finds a newspaper photo of himself.Īlmost a non-reader, Sam sounds out the headline- MISSING and below the photo of a toddler, the name-SAM BELL. ![]() It's the night before his eleventh birthday, and Sam McKenzie has searched all the usual places to find where his gifts are hidden. ![]()
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