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your case to solve
THE
MISHA
When Louisa finds a map of a
brand new house, she thinks her
family is moving far away!
Ò hope Grandma likes my card,” Louisa
chatted with her cat as she set down her
crayons. She picked up the card and held
I it to close to her face to inspect it. “Her
birthday is this weekend, and I want it to be the
best, most beautiful card ever. What do you think, floors. Each room was labeled: One room said “Parents’
Whiskers?” She flashed the card in front of Whiskers, bedroom,” one said “Louisa’s bedroom” and there was
who let out a meow in approval. even a bedroom labeled for Louisa’s older sister, Ryann,
“Okay, good. I hope she likes it as much as you do!” who spent most of the year living away at college. The
Louisa laughed. “Now all I need to do is sign it before set-up looked nothing like the layout of Louisa’s actual
walking over to Grandma’s house to stick it in her home, so why would her parents have a map of a
mailbox. That’s the perk of living one street away!” random house?
She set down her card down on the kitchen counter Suddenly, Louisa began to put the pieces together.
and started searching for a pen. She opened one Her heart sank.
drawer, then another, then another without success. “Are Mom and Dad trying to move?!” she gasped. Her
“Whiskers, did you hide all the pens?” she teased. mind started to race.
“I can’t find a single one.” Louisa pulled open a Why would Mom and Dad want to move? she frantically
fourth drawer, but instead of a pen, she found a map thought. Our house is perfect. It’s where I grew up. It’s
of a house’s floorplan stuffed inside. She had almost where I held my first-ever sleepover. It’s where I learned
tossed the map aside, but then a room with “Louisa” how to ride my bike. It’s so close to Grandma!
written across it caught her eye. Louisa’s eyes welled up with tears just thinking about GRAPHIC MOOI/SHUTTERSTOCK
Louisa’s brows furrowed in confusion.“What’s this?” moving away from her grandma.
she asked aloud as she scanned the map. It showed “Whiskers, this can’t be happening,” Louisa
the layout of a house’s upstairs and downstairs stammered. “This is so unfair! How could Mom and Dad
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