WELCOME TO WORDY WEDNESDAY!
I love words! And I love to read! So each Wednesday I’m going to grab an unfamiliar or unusual word I’ve discovered in some of my favorite books. I’ll post the meaning and the paragraph I’ve found the word to show its usage. If so inclined, check out the book and author’s website by clicking on the links below the paragraph. Happy Reading, Cyndi
Fonrol (plural: Fonrols):
Noun:
1) Any illegal third child in the “Shadow Children” series.
Among the Impostors, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Washing his face in the creek before leaving, Luke tortured himself with questions. Who had done this? Who were the–vandals? The criminals? Luke couldn’t even come up with a harsh enough word to describe them. Then he thought of the insults that had been hurled at him for the past month. Yes. The guilty ones were fonrols. Exnays. Leckers.
Luke wiped his face off on his sleeve, and it left a streak of mud. Who cared?
He circled wide leaving the creek so he didnt’ have to see his poor butchered garden again.
He didn’t even bother running across the wide expanse of lawn back to the school. He trudged.
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Read more: Among the Impostors, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
I love the sound of that.
Okay, so that explains the Fonrols, but who, pray tell, are the Exnays and the Leckers?
Patricia Rickrode
w/a Jansen Schmidt
Patricia, I was hoping someone would ask. A Lecker is a country bumpkin. And an Exnay is a 3rd child using a fake identity. This is an awesome YA series. The first book is called Among the Hidden and I highly recommend it.*grin*