Pasture Bedtime: Charlie's Rules #1

By Sigmund Brouwer and Sabrina Gendron

Eleven-year-old Charlie Dembinski likes to keep his life organized and quiet. This is a challenge when you live on a farm where your mother runs a veterinary clinic for the local livestock, neighbors’ pets and sometimes rescued wildlife. To complicate Charlie’s orderly life even further, his mother hires a bookkeeper to live on the farm who brings along her daughter, Amy Ma. And Amy is anything but quiet! Her constant questions and attempts to spend time with Charlie really bother him, and he doesn’t understand why the adults seem to like her so much. But when a neighbor’s beloved dog gets sick with a mysterious illness, Charlie realizes that Amy’s outgoing approach might not be all that bad.
This is the first book in the Charlie's Rules series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Release date: Feb 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781459819160

Sigmund Brouwer

Sigmund Brouwer is the award-winning author of over 100 books for young readers, with close to five million books in print. He has won a Christy Book of the Year and an Arthur Ellis Award, and some of his titles were finalists for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award (twice) and the Red Maple Award. For years, Sigmund has captivated students with his Story Ninja writing program during his school visits, reaching over one million students since 1990. His many books in the Orca Sports, Orca Soundings and Orca Currents lines have changed the lives of countless striving readers. Sigmund lives in Red Deer, Alberta.

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Text copyright © Sigmund Brouwer 2021

Illustrations copyright © Sabrina Gendron 2021

Published in Canada and the United States in 2021 by Orca Book Publishers.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Pasture bedtime / Sigmund Brouwer ; illustrated by Sabrina Gendron.

Names: Brouwer, Sigmund, 1959– author. | Gendron, Sabrina, illustrator.

Series: Orca echoes.

Description: Series statement: Orca echoes

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200182412 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200182439 |

ISBN

9781459825888 (softcover) |

ISBN

9781459819153 (

PDF

) |

ISBN

9781459819160 (

EPUB

)

Classification:

LCC

PS

8553.

R

68467

P

37 2021 |

DDC

j

C

813/.54—dc23

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020931807

Summary: In this partially illustrated early chapter book and the first book in the Charlie’s Rules series, eleven-year-old Charlie tries his hardest to keep his life quiet and organized amid the chaos of life on the farm with his veterinarian mother.

Orca Book Publishers is committed to reducing the consumption of nonrenewable resources in the making of our books. We make every effort to use materials that support a sustainable future.

Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

Cover artwork and interior illustrations by Sabrina Gendron

Author photo by Rebecca Wellman

Printed and bound in Canada.

24 23 22 21 • 1 2 3 4

For Jenna and Lauren and Dees.

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Author’s Note

Chapter One

Outside the horse barn on a Saturday