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    Cabin Girl
    Cabin Girl
    Cabin Girl
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    Cabin Girl

    By Kristin Butcher

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    Sixteen-year-old Bailey struggles with her job but stays because she loves the stories of the area—including the legend of a local ghost.

    Bailey is working at her first summer job, as a cabin girl at a fly-in fishing camp at Witch Lake. April, an older waitress with street smarts, takes Bailey under her wing and the two girls become friends. It’s all good until another waitress burns her arm and has to leave. Bailey gets a sudden promotion, and April is asked to help clean the cabins. April becomes far from friendly and Bailey finds herself alone again and messing up on the job—and possibly seeing the ghost.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781459806528
    Cabin Girl
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    Kristin Butcher

    Kristin Butcher is the author of twenty books for children. She has been shortlisted for the Silver Birch Award, the CLA Children's Book of the Year, the Red Cedar Award, the IODE Violet Downey Book Award, and the Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award, among others. Kristin lives in Campbell River, British Columbia.

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      Cabin Girl - Kristin Butcher

      Cabin Girl

      Kristin Butcher

      ORCA BOOK PUBLISHERS

      Copyright © 2014 Kristin Butcher

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Butcher, Kristin, author

      Cabin girl / Kristin Butcher.

      (Orca currents)

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-4598-0650-4 (bound).—ISBN 978-1-4598-0649-8 (pbk.).—

      ISBN 978-1-4598-0651-1 (pdf).—ISBN 978-1-4598-0652-8 (epub)

      I. Title.  II. Series: Orca currents

      PS8553.U6972C32 2014            jC813’.54            C2013-906740-X

      C2013-906741-8

      First published in the United States, 2014

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954153

      Summary: At her first job, Bailey learns about workplace bullying.

      Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

      Cover photography by Getty Images

      Author photo by Lisa Pederson Photography

      In Canada:

      Orca Book Publishers

      PO Box 5626, Station B

      Victoria, BC Canada

      V8R 6S4

      In the United States:

      Orca Book Publishers

      PO Box 468

      Custer, WA USA

      98240-0468

      www.orcabook.com

      17 16 15 14 • 4 3 2 1

      For Alan and Helen,

      with thanks.

      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter One

      Flying in a Beaver floatplane is like being deaf—only louder. Mrs. Watkins and I don’t even try to talk over the engine noise. We peer through our portholes at Mother Nature’s crazy quilt of sun-soaked lakes stitched with forest. The plane is so low, I can see its shadow on the water.

      I have butterflies in my stomach. Not because of flying. I’ve flown dozens of times. I’ve even flown to Witch Lake but always as a guest. This time I’m going as an employee—thanks to my godfather, Gabe Rutherford. He owns Witch Lake Lodge, and when he offered me a summer job as cabin girl, I jumped at it. I’m going to be cleaning toilets, changing beds and mopping floors. It’s not exactly glamorous, but I don’t care. I’ll be making money. Even better, my parents won’t be there. Freedom, at last!

      Jim, the pilot, nudges Mr. Watkins and points out the cockpit window. I crane my neck, but the nose of the plane is so high, all I see is blue sky. As if reading my thoughts, Jim lowers one wing and banks left. And there it is—Witch Lake.

      It looks different from the air. The first thing I notice is the red-roofed lodge perched on a hill. A deck dotted with yellow umbrellas stretches its entire length. It looks like a giant flower box. The guest cabins are arranged in a tidy semicircle behind the lodge, their paths connecting to the main building like spokes of a wheel. Outbuildings are scattered in out-of-the way corners. Staff quarters line an isolated path leading into the bush. A wide gravel walkway and lush green lawn roll down the hill from the lodge to the lake. It’s the middle of the day, which means guests and guides are out fishing, leaving the dock abandoned except for a couple of boats tied to one side. Parked nearby is a trailer hooked to an ATV. Two men are leaning against it. They shield their eyes and look up. One of them is Gabe. I smile and wave, but he doesn’t see.

      By the time the Beaver taxis in, the place is hopping. The trailer has been backed onto the dock. And two young women, another guy and a big black Lab have shown up. Even before the plane comes to a full stop, Jim jumps out and helps Gabe secure it. The Lab—white-muzzled and heavy with age—wags himself over to Jim. He sniffs the pilot’s pants pocket and pushes his nose into his hand. When Jim ignores him, the Lab lifts his head and barks.

      Jim laughs and scratches behind the dog’s ears. Can’t fool you, can I, old man? Here you go. He reaches into his pocket and offers the dog a treat. Then he scratches the Lab’s head again and croons, Good boy, Sid.

      Gabe helps Mrs. Watkins out of the plane, and I jump down behind her. Gabe smiles. Good to see you, Bailey. It’s gonna get busy around here real quick. I hope you’re ready.

      Without waiting for me to reply, he gestures to the two women standing near the end of the dock. They hurry over. Close up, I see they are younger than I had

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