One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,
and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used
fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business
establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rocklin, Joanne.
One day and one amazing morning on Orange Street / by Joanne Rocklin.
p. cm.
Summary: The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street
brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties,
including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.
ISBN 978-0-8109-9719-6 (alk. paper)
[1. Neighborhoods—Fiction. 2. Trees—Fiction. 3. Oranges—Fiction. 4.
Friendship—Fiction. 5. Family life—California—Fiction. 6. California—
Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R59Omm 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2010023452

Text copyright © 2011 Joanne Rocklin
Page 65: Prince Valiant comic strip reference from
Hal Foster: Prince of Illustrators/Father of the Adventure Strip
,
by Brian M. Kane, Vanguard Productions, NJ: 2001. Page 96.

Book design by Maria T. Middleton

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M
ORNING

The Color Orange

Ms. Snoops (303 Orange Street) Reports a Murder

306 Orange Street, Which Was Actually the Empty Lot

Bunny Perkins, 308 Orange Street

Bunny/Bonita Meets the Mysterious Stranger (Sort of)

Ruff, Under the Orange Tree

A
FTERNOON

M Is for?

Gertrude Riggle, 306 Orange Street

Leandra Jackson, 301 and 301½ Orange Street

An Angel and Robert Also Visit Ms. Snoops, and Robert Hifflesnuffles

Manny Has the Answer

On Top of the Birdhouse of the Golden Arches

Robert Green, 302 Orange Street

E
VENINIG

Just Enough Time

N
IGHT

Awakened

If the Orange Tree Could Speak

Larry and Pug Tilley, 306 Orange Street

M
ORNING
, A
GAIN

The Color Orange, Again

Reporting a Murder, Again

The Gruesome Details

An Amazing Chain of Events

Ms. Snoops Remembers Again

A
ND

Other Days

Author's Note

Acknowledgments

About the Author

t was a hot summer day on Orange Street, one of those days that seem ordinary until you look back on it. Lawn sprinklers sparkled, mourning doves cooed, and the sky was an amazing blue, as it always was in L.A. Even at eight
A.M
., the sun looked like a giant egg yolk. In fact, a few parents made a joke about the sidewalk being hot enough to fry an egg on by noontime. One grumpy kid wondered aloud why anyone would be dumb enough to do that.