The Body in the Sleigh (2009)
“At first she was a summer girl—although her mother was from the island. Maybe that was part of what had made Norah so different, so special. He was used to seeing the other kids all year round and they never seemed to change much. His best friend, Davey, got taller but stayed skinny and was in as much trouble for not being able to sit still in high school as he had been in kindergarten. It was the same with the girls. They did stuff to their hair, and their chests began altering in an alarming ...and exciting way, but they were still the same girls he’d been teasing on the playground forever.
But Norah was different. Each summer she’d come back to stay with her grandparents and there would have been a complete metamorphosis. Her curly carrot-colored hair—pigtails in his earliest memory—changed each year until it hung straight to her shoulders, a sheet of burnished copper. She freckled something fierce, but didn’t start caring about it until she got older. One summer, besides slathering herself with sunscreen, she carried a parasol she’d found in the attic that had belonged to her great-great-grandmother.MoreLess
But Norah was different. Each summer she’d come back to stay with her grandparents and there would have been a complete metamorphosis. Her curly carrot-colored hair—pigtails in his earliest memory—changed each year until it hung straight to her shoulders, a sheet of burnished copper. She freckled something fierce, but didn’t start caring about it until she got older. One summer, besides slathering herself with sunscreen, she carried a parasol she’d found in the attic that had belonged to her great-great-grandmother.MoreLess
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