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...
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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 —
About Hawaii. Mary Anne had been there on a school trip in July, along with almost all of my other BSC (Baby-sitters Club) friends. Sorry about the noise, Mary Anne, I shouted into the phone as Emily...
You see, they hadn’t said a single nice thing to me since I had gotten the makeover,
You really haven’t lived until a dog has stepped on your face. I
What’s fun about homonyms is hearig a word in a sentence and suddenly realizing that it has a homonym or maybe two (or three, but that’s so rare I don’t often think about homonym quartets) and that yo...
What does RV stand for, anyway? Mary Anne asked. Ridiculous Vehicle, Watson said,
Well, it’s only temporary, until the rest of the house is in order. Then it goes downstairs to the living room. What movie do you want to see? What do you have? Practically everything. My mom’s a movi...
We are going to meet Megan Rinehart tomorrow. It’s worth all this work. When
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...
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...
Stacey? Kristy said. You have a Chunky wrapper on your butt.
Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles dow...
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,...
She’s thinking of signing up for Outward Bound next year. That’s where they give you all this survival training, then send you out in the wilderness to be on your own for three days, with nothing but...
Rain and I have routines. We like routines.
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.
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...