Man Trip Page 6

  Ledward walked with his hands in the pockets of his shorts. “You get your girl problems taken care of?”

  “Maybe. I guess.”

  “They get you coming and going, don’t they?”

  “You can run but you can’t hide.” Stella said that to me all the time. I wasn’t too sure what it meant, but I liked it.

  Ledward laughed, loud.

  It was me and him, on another man trip. Sometimes you go fishing. Sometimes you just go for a walk.

  Toads kept croaking. Bugs kept buzzing.

  All that life.

  Ledward was right.

  It was amazing.

  A Hawaii Fact:

  Of the six hundred active volcanoes on earth today, Kilauea Volcano, on the Big Island of Hawaii, is the world’s largest and most active.

  A Calvin Fact:

  Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your entire life. Think about it: what if you lived to be 150?

  Graham Salisbury is the author of six other Calvin Coconut books: Trouble Magnet, The Zippy Fix, Dog Heaven, Zoo Breath, Hero of Hawaii, and Kung Fooey, as well as several novels for older readers, including the award-winning Lord of the Deep, Blue Skin of the Sea, Under the Blood-Red Sun, Eyes of the Emperor, House of the Red Fish, and Night of the Howling Dogs. Graham Salisbury grew up in Hawaii. Calvin Coconut and his friends attend the same school Graham did—Kailua Elementary School. Graham now lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family. You can visit him on the Web at grahamsalisbury.com.

  Jacqueline Rogers has illustrated more than ninety books for young readers over the past twenty years. She studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. You can visit her on the Web at jacquelinerogers.com.