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FREDDIE BRENNER’S
 MYSTICAL ADVENTURES
Book 5
Looking for a Rainbow
by
Kathy J. Forti
© copyright 1984, 2011
 
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Looking for a Rainbow
t was love at first sight. Freddie Brenner pressed his face against the pet store window,as he had every day for the past few weeks. He watched longingly as the little black puppy romped around on its shredded bed of paper.His mind went back to the first time he had wandered into the pet shop. The very daythe puppy had arrived. The owner was trying to put him in his cage and his little body squirmedevery which way to break free.
“Can I hold him?” Freddie had spoken up, wanting to save the little dog. Freddie hated
to see animals caged up. They always looked so sad.
“Sure,” the owner said. “Better hold onto him. This one has a mind of his own.”
 From the moment Freddie took him into his arms it was like two old friends beingreunited after a long separation. The little dog immediately wrapped its tiny paws around
Freddie’s neck and started slobbering his face with grateful kisses. After that, the pet storeowner 
had one hell of a time separating the two of them.Freddie Brenner was determined to make that little dog his no
matter what. “Just onemore day, fella, and you’ll be all mine,” he whispered against the glass window. The watery,
black eyes seemed to understand as the dog scratched against the window trying to reach him.
“Got to go now or I’ll be late for school. But come tomorrow, I’ll get you out of this here prison and you’ll be a free dog at last. Hang in there little buddy.”
 Freddie glanced at his watch. It was hard tearing himself away from the sight of that wetlittle nose pressed up against the glass. How he wanted that dog. It had been all he could talk 
about for the last few weeks. Everyone knew how he’d been saving to buy the little animal. Itgot to be a joke with his friends that instead of saying, “I’ll meet you at the corner of Elm andWaverly,” they’d say instead “I’ll meet you by Freddie’s dog.”
 Freddie laughed when he thought about it. Yes, everyone sure knew how he wanted this
dog. But buying a dog from a pet store these days wasn’t cheap. It would take all of Freddie’s
paper route savings and, of course, the money his dad had promised to chip in if he made thegrade on his report card. And today was that day. Report cards would be passed out thisafternoon at the end of last period.
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