He made me stand in the corner for two hours with one leg up. My mother got mad at him. Said he was being ridiculous and she wasn’t gonna put up with him being cruel to me. They argued about it for a long time. He did what she said, though, and let me go to my room. They agreed that I wouldn’t be...
She told Zora and Mai about me taking the money. She said she wasn’t trying to say I was a thief. Just that I was the kind of person who couldn’t do wrong no matter how hard I tried. Zora and Mai don’t see it that way, though. They say I’m straight up wrong for what I did, and they think Ja’nae i...
Jacobs's Rules Jacobs’s Rules MR. JACOBS WAS getting mad. But that didn’t stop us from talking. “Settle down!” he yelled again. The boys did quiet down a bit. The big-mouthed girls kept right on yakking. “Do you understand English?” Jacobs said, smacking his hands like cymbals, right in Marimba’s...
Girls Make You Weak IT WAS PASSED DOWN TO ME. Just like my uncles’ blue eyes, my grandfather’s flat feet, and my dad’s big nose. All the men in our family have it. And it didn’t skip one generation, either. The men call it the cheating gene. They say it’s built into our DNA. The women in our fami...