Kettle Creek Books

Kettle Creek

by Micah Nilsson

Three books, one town

Cricket, Fox and Boots on a gravel bar by the river at first light, Boots holding a fish.

Kettle Creek is a small town in a dry valley. There is a slow green creek with a deep part, a flat rock lot where everybody plays ball, a water tower with the bottom rungs missing from the ladder, and a ridge that is older than the town.

Mrs. Toadwell lives two doors down and is never surprised by anything. A young rabbit turns up at every game and every party. He is somebody's cousin. Nobody asks whose.

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