Charlotte and the Pikes stared after Sabrina as Mrs. Bouvier whisked her away.Do you know what that was? Claudia whispered to me. A pageant-head, that’s what. A poor kid who gets roped into any beauty...
Behind her was my youngest brother, David Michael (seven, going on three). He was brandishing an ugly figurine carved from a coconut, which he’d somehow convinced my mom and dad to buy in Hawaii. Nyyy...
All this BSC pressure was getting to me. I was forgetting how to be a good sitter. Or maybe I had never been one to begin with. Maybe that's why the club was falling apart. Maybe I needed to back off...
Adam,' I say, 'had good times and he had bad times.' I pause here and glance at Nana, see that she is crying silently, the way I cried at the duck pond in the park. I was going to say something more a...
Jessi is the only black student in the sixth grade),
I love Mary Anne dearly, but she was no help. She still thinks you score touchdowns in baseball.)
You just said you had been thinking about it for awhile, Dawn cut in. Thinking about it, I said. But you know me — I thought I did. Dawn jammed some bean curd in her mouth.
You are exaggerating, Sunny. You don’t know a thing about him. He is still a stranger. You may never see him again. Get over it.
When I was older, I could move to some place (like Australia or Kentucky) where the boys act more like human beings.
What, said Ruby fatly as she reentered the store.
What I didn’t figure was that I’d be eating dinner with the Stepsister from the Black Lagoon.
She thought of Mama making dresses for her and Rose because handmade was cheaper than store bought,
Say things you’d like to hear if you were in the audience. Make the audience feel good. Flatter them. Flatter them. Just use good sense. Claudia? Yeah? I think maybe I was born without good sense.
Part of me had hoped my BSC friends had planned this whole thing as a huge April Fool's joke seven months early. We'd all have a big laugh and go back to the way we were, loyal and full of group spiri...
Mom says,'What are you going to do when it's time to go to college?' I choose not to think about that yet. That is years away. For now, I just watn things all safe and familiar. My life may not be per...
Luv, Stace
Janine shook her head. Then she stomped into the house. Mean Janine, I muttered. Come on, Jamie. Let’s go. Janine had spoiled my whole afternoon.
Janine bit her lip. She was still holding Mimi’s hand, patting it gently. I don’t think we’re supposed to move her, she said, but we should keep her warm. Let’s cover her with her bathrobe and try to...
If Kristy wanted me to feel left out for some reason, I could do the same to her.
I knew when we changed our schedule, something like this would happen.Stacey rolled her eyes. Kristy, one thing has nothing to do with the other.Remember when Monday, Wednesday and Friday used to be u...