The Cottage

The Cottage

The Cottage
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 6
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.46

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bedside, maintenance, odds, assortment, attachment, dreams, clearly, holiday, lightly, title, eraser, ache, powerful, exactly, bitter, familiar

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The Cottage
By Mary Lynn Bushong

¹     "It's the summer holiday at last," sighed Michael as he dropped his over-stuffed backpack on the floor of his room. It was exactly one month until it was time to go to The Cottage for a week.

²     That is how he always thought of it, like it was the title of a book, an entity of its own, not just a place. Michael closed his eyes and imagined himself there. The spicy familiar smell of the ferns that grew almost waist high on the dappled forest floor, the resinous smell of the pine woods that covered the island, and the wind that blew off the clear lake waters were always favorite memories for him.

³     He flopped back on his bed, leaving his eyes closed. The memory left an almost physical ache behind. What wouldn't he give to be there now?

⁴     Michael leaned over the side of his bed and rummaged in his backpack. Books, notebooks, paper, and odds and ends formed a stack on the floor until he finally found what he wanted. He dropped his sketchbook on the bed beside him and then dug through the assortment of things in the drawer of his bedside table, finally retrieving one of his drawing pencils and a kneaded eraser.

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