Chapter 1
I am a tall, skinny, teenage boy with blond hair. I live with my older sister Betty and my mom. My parents are divorced and dad left us when I was two years old. We move a lot because mom has trouble paying the rent on time. We don’t have a lot of money. We were all in the car on the way to our new house when I found my pet chameleon Albert in my moms coffee cup. He got out of his cage and was missing for weeks. When I found Albert in my moms coffee cup he was dead. Mom pulled over so
I could bury him. Then we got back in the car to go to our new house.
Chapter 2 When my mom, Betty and I pulled up in front of our new house in Staten Island we were excited. The house was brown and green and had a big yard. The best part was that it had a huge apple tree in the yard. The worst part was all of the cockroaches inside.
I hate cockroaches! Mom set up cockroach killer and we left to go to the movies. When we got back I opened the closet door and 5,000 cockroaches fell out onto me. I started screaming and mom promised to get more cockroach …show more content…
My mom got us four dogs from her job at the animal shelter (one of them named “Lady” was my dog), Connie began to date a butcher she met named Chops, and Jennifer and I spent a lot of time in our apple tree eating apples and talking about everything. It was almost time for school to start, so mom took Betty and I to the Salvation Army to get some back-to-school clothes. I was starting to get nervous about starting at a new school with all new kids.
Jennifer told me all about the kids that I would meet, but I was still really nervous.
Nonno Frankie saw that I was scared about starting at a new school and he started to talk to me and joke with me to calm me down. He gave me lots of advice and told me to just be myself and be happy with who I am. Nonno Frankie was becoming my pigman.A pigman is someone who helps