4 “How did it go?” Wilson’s mother asked when he walked in the door. “Okay.” He wasn’t going to tell her that he had spent the whole time drawing hamsters. She might fire Mrs. Tucker and get him a different math tutor who would make him spend the whole time doing math. Fortunately, his mom didn’t ask anything else, though Wilson could tell she wanted to. He hated seeing the hopeful look on her face, as if one hour with a math tutor would have solved her son’s problems with fractions forever. “She said I’m going to be seeing her two hours a week,” Wilson said. “I thought I only had to go one hour a week.” “No, it’s going to be twice a week, on Wednesday afternoon and Saturday morning. We’re lucky that Mrs. Tucker had these openings in her schedule.” Lucky wasn’t the word Wilson would have chosen. Pip wasn’t in her cage in Wilson’s room. He found her in Kipper’s room. Or rather, he found her inside the tent in Kipper’s room. Since their overnight family camping trip one weekend during spring break, Kipper had been sleeping every night in the small tent he had begged his parents to set up in his bedroom.
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