Regan Brown Audiobook - Fiction Drama
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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summer, 1955 nine year old Annie Atkinson peddled her bicycle is hard as she could, but Tommy Reynolds still managed to stay just ahead of her. Several other Children watched and shouted as the bikes barreled down the new driveway Anne's father had recently installed between his two rows of summer rental cottages. As they neared the finish line, where the drive circled around a tall flagpole, Tommy pulled away from Annie and screeched his bicycle to a halt. He was about to lift his arms in victory. When Anne didn't stop, she hopped the new Kerr with her bike and kept going across the lawn that edged the steep hill leading down to the beach. Tommy dumped his bike and ran behind her. She's crazy. He Alda's Annie's head disappeared out of sight. Several cottage tenants had noticed their Children cheering on either the Reynolds boy or the owner's daughter. But when the commotion reached a peak, some of the adults joined in with the youngsters, following Tommy down the knoll toward the water. Any voted the sandy beach at the bottom and veered her bike right onto the dock. Her father and his friend and employee Big Black bow were trying to get a boat started for one of the renters. The thump thump thump of the bike tires traveling across the planks caught their attention. Luke paused from his job to watch his daughter near the end of their long pier. Surely she was going to break, he thought. But judging from the crowd, which now included his wife, Liz, running down the knoll, it became clear that his daughter had no intention of stopping. Anne was all her father could get out before she and her bike plunged off the end of the dock and into the bay. Any surface from the water. With a yell of acceleration, however, her parents faces staring back at her from the dock above, quickly silenced her. More than half a dozen others flanked them, including a smug Tommy Reynolds. By the time she pulled herself up the ladder and onto the pier, her mother had already headed back up to their cottage. That was not a good sign