During the boys’ hunt, they encounter the ghost of a little girl who is trying to find her lost doll, and shortly after this encounter, Patty loses one of his mittens, revealing “His fingers were webbed.” Patty then shares with child-Grandpa that his grandmother was a selkie. I would have stayed longer, but I felt bad about the lady always sharing her food with me.” Schapansky really only shares one two-part event that occurred during Grandpa’s time in nineteenth century Scotland, and it happened when he and Patty were spending the day catching rats in the alleys of Mary King’s Close with Bell being unable to participate because he had piano lessons. In this setting, child-Grandpa “stayed about a year. He also befriends two local lads, homeless red-headed Patty, who “always wore mittens of some sort”, and Bell, whose “first name was kind of long, so we just called him by his last name.” Because Bell “had a nice family and a fine home”, child-Grandpa and Patty “thought that Bell was quite rich.” Taken in by an unnamed “kind lady”, child-Grandpa is provided with food and shelter. This time, Grandpa finds himself to be a homeless 10-year-old in the slums of Edinburgh, Scotland, where, in 1857, the people were still recovering from the devastating effects of the Irish Potato Famine that had also spread to Scotland. The second volume of “The Avery Chronicles” begins the evening after the action of the opening book as Avery listens to another of his grandfather’s stories.
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