You're Not the Boss of Me Nikki isn't playing right. She's holding her paddle wrong and she isn't keeping her eye on the ball. Plus she's hitting too hard and the Ping-Pong ball isn't even bouncing on the table. Deja has to keep chasing it and she's getting tired. "You're hitting the ball too h...
She’s just come across a beautiful picture of little cakes the size of ring boxes—called petit fours—when Deja knocks on the door. Nikki quickly puts a folded napkin on the page before she closes the book. Then she opens the door. Deja is standing there with her backpack. “Wanna do homework toget...
Tie Map of Many Clever Features Map presentations begin after lunch, during Social Studies. "Who wants to go first?" Ms. Shelby asks in her encouraging tone. She always sounds like a cheerleader when it is time for project presentations. Deja's hand shoots up before Ms. Shelby even gets the quest...
Montgomery’s, Francie, and start those cakes.” Mama adjusted her hat in front of the little cracked mirror hanging over the basin stand where we washed our faces. “I’ll be down the street at Mrs. Grace’s, since I promised I’d get her floors waxed for her book-club meeting tonight.” My heart sank ...
Trampolines and Tetherballs Built into the Ground The problem with putting out a newsy news newsletter every other week is that the days seem to race by. Suddenly it is Wednesday, and the second newsy news newsletter is due on Friday. On the way to school Nikki says, "Deja, we need news for Frida...