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    Cheetah
    Cheetah
    Cheetah
    Ebook49 pages20 minutes

    Cheetah

    By Wendy A. Lewis and Graham Ross

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    Cheetah is the small spotted frog Amelia brings home in a macaroni container. Amelia longs to keep Cheetah forever, but over the course of a week, she comes to understand that his place is back in the wild. Cheetah is based on a true story, and all the characters are real.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateMar 1, 2007
    ISBN9781554695911
    Cheetah
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    Wendy A. Lewis

    Wendy A. Lewis is the author of several stories and books. Her collection Graveyard Girl received the Canadian Authors' Association Vicky Metcalf Award for excellence in young adult short fiction. Wendy loves to visit schools and libraries to talk about the writing process and conduct creative writing workshops. She lives in Uxbridge, Ontario with her family.

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      Cheetah - Wendy A. Lewis

      Cheetah Number One

      Mia looked in the mirror. Her human face looked back at her. She sighed. If only she had been born an animal. They were so much more fun.

      Mia got out her black marker. She drew spots on her face. She drew stripes under her eyes. She put on a furry-ear headband. She tucked a tail into her pants.

      Now she was a cheetah, the fastest runner of all the animals! Mia the Cheetah zoomed around her room.

      Grrr! her tummy growled. It was time to hunt. She slunk into the hallway. She peered through the open crack of her sister’s door. Maggie was rocking her doll, Baby Uh-Oh.

      Uh-oh! Baby Uh-Oh cried. Uh-oh! Uh-oh!

      Mia knew that cry. It meant Baby Uh-Oh had wet her pants. She did that a lot.

      Maggie took off her doll’s wet clothes. Mia the Cheetah saw Baby Uh-Oh’s chubby, bare legs. Grrr! her tummy growled. She licked her lips. She knew it wasn’t nice to eat people. But she was hungry!

      Girls, breakfast is ready, their mother called.

      Maggie looked up. She saw Mia ready to pounce.

      Don’t hunt my babies! she yelled.

      Mia had hunted Maggie’s dolls before.

      Girls! their mother called again. Come for breakfast now or I’ll feed it to Fang.

      Fang was the dog that lived next door. Mia’s family didn’t have any pets. Her parents said, No pets until the house is finished. They had been working on the house for Mia’s whole life. She was afraid it would never be finished. And that meant no pets,

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