A Friend For Adam

By Jo Grix

New kid Adam wishes for a friend, and embarks on a mission that will change everything.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jo Grix
• Release date: Jul 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301097104

Jo Grix

Born in Huntsville, Texas, Jo found her stimulation through writing and reading from a young age. In a town where the big excitements were movies and bowling, she filled notebooks, and later Word documents with stories of places she wanted to visit, or that she dreamed up. As to Jo herself, she's not the most exciting individual, she saves that for her heroes and heroines.

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A Friend for Adam

Jo Grix

Copyright 2013 by T. Jo Grix

Smashwords Edition

Chapter One

The kids had stared long and hard at the moving van when they’d come home from school, but when there was no sign of the child that surely owned the bike by the garage and the boxes marked toys, they went on to their own homes, disappointed. Had any of them lingered, and looked up at the right most window on the second floor, they would have been surprised to see a little boy with sad blue eyes staring back out at them.

Adam Chambers stared out the window at the kids playing across the street. They had been staring up at the house off and on for a while, but it seemed as if the game of tag had become more important than the moving van’s mysterious contents. I wish I had a friend, he whispered.

Thud.

Adam turned.

Thud.

There was something in his closet.

Thud.

Adam stared at the closet, until there was another, even louder, thud that sent him bolting for the door. Mom he shouted, Dad! Stocking feet sliding under him, Adam ran down the hallway to his