Oh, that is pathetic, said Mallory to Jessi. Look at them. They’re going to think the only thing that matters in their lives is beauty and poise. They’ll grow up believing they can only be pretty face...
Pop once said it’s a good thing we don’t know what’s around the corner. I didn’t understand what he meant then, but I do now. It’s better to wish than to know.
ROLLING After the parade,
Really, Kristy, a sweater with snowflakes and snowmen on it? You look like a four-year-old. Well, you’ve got sheep barrettes in your hair, I yelled. You think they’re adult? Sheep, Claudia informed me...
Sabrina looked as if she might have been born on a stage. She smiled glamorously at the audience and the judges, curtsied prettily, and shook Mrs. Peabody’s hand smoothly.Okay, I thought, after all th...
She was wearing a wonderful Claudia outfit — a purple-and-white striped bodysuit under a gray jumper-thing. The legs of the bodysuit stretched all the way to her ankles, but she was wearing purple pus...
Sorry, Mary Anne, I can’t hear you! I shouted into the phone receiver. Mary Anne Spier cleared her throat and began, I said, hi, I really missed you, and — EEEEEEEE! That was my two-year-old sister, E...
They were just passing the Evanses’ house, Rose making gruesome faces in case they were spying out their windows, when Abby felt someone take her elbow, and she turned to find Zander Burley, his arm n...
A blast of putrid air. I nearly gagged. Yeccch, it stinks! I blurted out. Really? Mary Anne said. I think it’s magical. No, not Hawaii! Our fridge! Sam slammed the door shut. What died in there? Someo...
And my earlobes have not been stabbed (er, pierced).
And on Fridays, we have snake fries for dinner. You have to go out and catch your own snake. Then you fry it up and —
Back. WHERE ARE YOUR FEET? IN THE KITCHEN! The Thomas/Brewer family was in total, utter chaos. It was 11:00 A.M. on the Sunday before Labor Day. My family was just waking up, groggy and jetlagged. We’...
Example of one of the big differences between Kristy and me. I was wearing a very short pink cotton dress, white tights, and black ballet slippers. I had swept all of my hair way over to one side, whe...
Homework,
Loops
Pictures. Charlie and Sam were arguing at the top of their lungs. Nannie was chasing after Emily Michelle with a change of clothes. David Michael came in and pretended to faint from the smell. Mom bus...
A new voice spoke up. I can tell you how to get rid of the Pageant Jitters forever, it said, sounding as if it were reciting something from a TV commercial. The voice belonged to the girl with the mak...
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...
At the beginning of my illness, hospital visits couldn’t be avoided. I needed tests, I had to have my diet and insulin regulated, and once I fainted at school and went into insulin shock and the ambul...
BSC
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