Love, Love

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Text © 2020 Victora Chang

Illustrations © 2020 Lorraine Nam

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Interior design by Heather Kelly and Julie Robine

Table of contents

1. missing

See

The Disappearing Wig

The Chins

Winters

Books

The Secret in The Secret of the Old Clock

No One

Wig Shop

Pin by Pin

The Missing Wig

Stories

My Mom’s Car

Talk

Neighbors

The Birds

Sally Levin

Tennis

Jogging

A Good Plan

Bathroom Break

The Wig

No Wig

2: the beginning of something

Annie

Tennis

Mystery

A Stranger

The Hill

Focus

Hair Dream #1

Clue Collecting

Bushes

Wet Wig

School

Double

Dance

Searching

Maybe

Happy

Nothing

Hair Dream #2

Chinese School

From

Dragon Inn

The Apartments

New Idea

Deadline

Light

Money

Deflated

3: maybe

New Plan

Fix It

Hair Dream #3

Haircuts

Hair Dream #4

A Conversation

My Family

Hair Dream #5

The Doctors

Hair Dream #6

Doctors’ Offices

Hair Dream #7

Bare

Fingers

Hair Dream #8

Brown Packages

Maybe

4: face

Bubble

Watching

Three Theories

Experiments

Library

Research

Illnesses

Laughing

Something

Sleuth

The Diary

Open It

Open

5: I am here

The Wig Store

The Car

Hair Dream #9

The Missing Wig

Josh and Steve

Egg Rolls

Tennis Tournament

The New Wig

The Tournament

Here

The Win

Letters

Hands

Hair Dream #10

Never Again

Secrets

Author’s Note

To all the bullied kids in the world: I see you.

To all the kids who suffer: I see you.

And

To my human children: Penny and Winnie

To my wiener dog children: Mustard and Ketchup

1:

missing

See

I see my sister Clara on

the ground in the back

of the school

I see a few kids around her

at least I think it’s her

I see a dirty window

dirty kids

dirty yard

everything dirty

especially near the end of winter

when the snow picks up all the mud on

the ground and

mixes it all up

I love snow but only snow

snow always sucks up

the earth in

this cold dirty city

West Bloomfield Michigan

there must be blooming fields west of here

all the flowers keep

sprouting in my head

when they pop out of my head

the city pulls them out like weeds

after school I ask Clara

were you at

the back of the school today