the name of this book is secret by pseudonymous bosch

Naturally, they took that story to mean the boy shouldn’t have cried wolf when there weren’t any. Instead, everyone was always reminding her about the boy who cried wolf.

But she couldn’t help wishing people took her concerns more seriously. And that child spinning around on the grass did not have mad cow disease - he was just having a good time.Ĭass didn’t exactly mind that her predictions hadn’t come true. The mildew in her mother’s shower turned out to be just that - not the killer mold Cass predicted. There’d been no earthquakes at school - none strong enough to shatter a window, anyway. The truth is, up until the time this story begins, none of the disasters she predicted had befallen her. On the evidence of the items in her backpack, you might guess that Cass had led a very adventurous life. Earthquakes, hurricanes, plagues - she is an expert in all things terrible and she sees evidence of them everywhere. But she resembles a prophet in that she is always predicting disaster.

Nor has she been cursed by a god, at least not to my knowledge. Unlike the Cassandra of myth, the girl who figures in our story is not a prophet. Imagine knowing that your whole world was about to be destroyed by a tornado or typhoon, and then having nobody believe you when you told them. When she rejected him, Apollo became so angry he placed a curse on her: he gave her the power to predict the future, but he also ensured that nobody would believe her predictions. She was very beautiful, and Apollo, god of the sun, fell in love with her.

Brown Books for Young Readers Submitted by Lisa Sabater / UGCĪccording to Greek myth, the original Cassandra was a princess of ancient Troy. She believes it’s just when you least expect something earth-shattering to happen that it does.

The name of this book is secret by pseudonymous bosch