" He’ll never set the world on fire, but he’s steady,” Wally overheard his mom say to his aunt once. And that was just fine with him.
But when the Malloys moved in, he forgot what peaceful was. He forgot what quiet was. When a strange animal, possibly a cougar, was sighted around Buckman—an animal the newspaper nicknamed an abaguchie—Wally even dreamed that the animal had carried off Caroline, and he would never have to feel her poking him in the back again with her pencil. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)