As Ida May begins fourth grade, she is determined never to make another best friend--because her last best friend moved away. This is a doable plan at first. Thanks to bratty, bossy Jenna Drews who hates Ida, no one in class has ever really noticed her before. It's when the sparkly Stacey...
I line them up on the windowsill in my bedroom to dry. “Seven rocks,” I say to George. He’s watching from my bed. “Just like us girls.” Then I do some rearranging. Three rocks here. Four rocks there. I look at George. “Do you think we’ll ever be seven again?” George stares at me with his black bu...
Randi sees them coming and catches up. Meeka and Jolene do a little hop-skip-jump together as they come down the path toward me. Brooke is batting away bugs. Stacey is practicing some dance move she probably just learned. Jenna is talking constantly even though no one seems to be listening. "Miss...
Dad asks. It’s Sunday. We’re leaving today. I stuff George down deep in my suitcase and tuck my sketchbook on top. “Uh-huh,” I say, looking over the checklist from camp. “Clothes…flashlight…swimsuit…bug repellent—everything I’m supposed to bring to camp, plus some stuff I want to bring.” I zip my...
I made a whole list of names, but I didn’t like any of them, so I used my oil pastels to draw a picture of my fish over the list. Now I have a very colorful fish with lots of names hidden inside. “Did you feed your fish? ” Mom asks as she pulls my jacket hood up over my hat on Monday morning. She...