The best way to get this point across is to describe to you what Claudia was wearing at lunch that day. It was her vegetable blouse: an oversized white shirt with a green vegetable print all over it —...
Shook my head. Then, tears welling up in my eyes, I fled down the hall to the lounge and sat in front of the soda machines until it was time to go home.
There's no use asking Mom and Dad to talk to Nana about her punishment. They won't stand up to her. They never do. This is why I decide I am not going to speak to Nana or Papa or my parents. What Leil...
Now, Tom had seemed like a decent guy when we watched him during track practice, and seeing that sign on the bulletin board had given us a clue that he had a good heart, too. But it was almost as if h...
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...
Bug on the wall.
What does RV stand for, anyway? Mary Anne asked. Ridiculous Vehicle, Watson said,
Okay, so Courtie had some dirt on the knees of her pants and a piece of grass in her hair and a little red around her mouth. She was four. What did Leigh expect? Four-year-olds get dirty. I’d be more...
Olivia was moody. wasn't a word with which she was very familiar, but if it meant that her moods swung back and forth for no reason at all, and that she felt crabby and wanted to be alone more often t...
On Claud, though, the look is very cool.) For example, today she was wearing a neon green tank top under a white oversized man’s shirt and fuschia pink stirrup pants. The shirt was rolled at the sleev...
One night last year when my father and I were eating supper at 6.17 p.m., I said to him, Did you have a favourite?A favourite what? asked my father.A favourite foster mother.Yes, I did, said my father...
Our clients depend on us, I shot back. That's why they keep calling back. Our motto was, one call, seven sitters, remember? Not one call, four or five sitters who bothered to show up and a couple of o...
Me for anything
If Dawn
Queen.
So I guess you’re the new neighbors, said Zander. Well, see you. He strode up the walk to his house and let himself inside, the screen door slamming behind him. He thinks he’s so great, muttered Abby,...
Thought for sure someone would screech or gasp or fall off the bed.
The two-year-olds were standing over a pile of dirty forks and spoons, laughing hysterically.They're okay, Claudia said.No thanks to you, Mary Anne commented under her breath.If you're so concerned, w...
Take it easy, Kelea, said Thrash, grinning at me. Kelea? I repeated. A legendary Hawaiian princess who made friends with the water god. She was a radical surfer, he said. Oh, I replied, blushing. Well...
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.
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