The Bear Business

By L.M. Stockton

Five-year-old Mandy lives in rural New Mexico with her mother and father. While her mother cooks and cleans and her father works the fields, lonely Mandy meanders through the long days.

One morning she finds a bear cub curled upon her bedroom floor. Finally, a friend to play with! But Mandy's aunt does not approve of the friendship and encourages Mandy's parents to get rid of the bear. Mandy and the bear must find a way to stay together without anyone knowing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: L.L. Press
• Release date: Mar 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463084236

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The Bear Business

L. L. Press

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L.M. Stockton

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Chapter 1

Mandy opened her eyes early one summer morning and sat up in bed to look out the window. The sun was still hiding behind the mountains just past the barn, but its light was already stretching up into the sky over Mandy’s house.

If she ran downstairs quickly, maybe she could go with Daddy in his pickup today.

Mandy threw on her clothes any old way. The collar of her shirt was turned under on one side, and the shoulder straps on her bib overalls were twisted this way and that. She put one boot on the wrong foot and had to take it off and start again.

At the table in the kitchen, Mandy ate every last scrap of her breakfast and drank all her milk. Then she asked, Daddy, may I go with you today in the pickup?

"I’m sorry, Mandy, but you can’t go today. I’ll be gone all day long fixing the fence in Wild Goose Canyon. Come out to the