Philip and the Angel

By John Paulits

How is Philip ever going to get a pet, the one thing he wants most in the world, when his parents say no to his every request? Angel, a very smart neighborhood girl, gives Philip a plan to change his parents’ mind, but the plan ends in disaster, and Philip’s parents say no louder than ever. With Angel’s help Philip tries again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing
• Release date: Mar 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781619504813

Book preview

Contents

Copyright Page

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 5

Chapter 10

Chapter 12

About the Author

Philip and the Angel

by

John Paulits

All rights reserved

Copyright © May 2011, John Paulits

Cover Art Copyright © 2011, Charlotte Holley

Gypsy Shadow Publishing

Lockhart, TX

www.gypsyshadow.com

Names, characters and incidents depicted in this eBook are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of the author or the publisher.

No part of this eBook may be reproduced or shared by any electronic or mechanical means, including but not limited to printing, file sharing, and email, without prior written permission from Gypsy Shadow Publishing.

ISBN: 978-1-61950-481-3

Published in the United States of America

First eBook Edition: May 25, 2011

Dedication

For Doris Moriarty

Chapter One

Philip, why don’t you go out and play? The rain stopped half an hour ago.

Philip lay on the sofa reading The Sorcerer’s Stone. He looked over to the window then up at his mother. Do I have to? Harry Potter’s in trouble.

Yes, yes, yes. You have to or pretty soon you’ll be in trouble. Here. She took his book and spread it open upside down on the coffee table to save his page. Get some air. You haven’t been out of the house all week except to go to school.

It’s been raining all week. Are you trying to get rid of me?

I have to clean and you’re always in the room I’m cleaning next.

Philip sighed. Emery, his best friend, had called earlier to say he had a secret to show him. He couldn’t simply tell him about it, so Philip shouldn’t even ask.

Philip did ask, but no matter how many times Philip begged his friend to stop being so mysterious, Emery wouldn’t. He kept a secret better than anybody Philip knew.

I’ll go see what Emery’s doing. He’s got something to show me.

Good idea, said his mother as she bustled out of the living room.

Philip swung his feet to the floor and put on his sneakers while he listened to his mother doing the housework. It didn’t look like much fun being a grown-up, but then fourth grade wasn’t all that much fun, either. School would be over in another month, though, and then summer. He finished tying his sneakers and left.

The wet grass glistened and puddles shimmered everywhere. The sun felt good. Plus a rainbow arced across the sky! Philip walked along toward Emery’s house and studied the rainbow, a really colorful one, a rainbow better than any Philip remembered ever seeing. He followed it across the sky until it disappeared behind the house in front of him. He noticed someone in the window of the house waving to him. Philip waved back before realizing it was that girl again.

The girl’s forehead pressed against the living room window screen.

Hi, she called.

Philip stopped walking. Who was this girl? She’d moved to the neighborhood a while ago, yet he never saw her in school. He’d only seen her at different windows of her house staring out at the neighborhood. She’d begun waving to him, and he waved back. Now, she wanted to talk to him.

Wait, she called and disappeared from the window. A moment later she came out the front door. She looked about the same age as Philip and had long blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail. As she stood there in her jeans and pink T-shirt looking at him, Philip felt nervous.

I’m allowed out a little today, the