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It's over. I can't believe it. Back to boring old life.
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homework,
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Pop, can we get ice cream when we're in Barnegat Point?" she asked. "I'm not made of money," Pop replied, which didn't mean either yes or no."
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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, and strode into her own house."
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Sure. Waffles are fine. How come you didn't ask me what I wanted?" "I'm asking you now." "They're fine," Janine said again. Sighing, she turned back to the computer. I stuck my tongue out at her and ran downstairs. "Waffles are fine!" I told Mimi." --
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trust you are prepared for it, both financially and phy--" "We're all set," I said, cutting Janine off."
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Janine took a large bite of waffle. "The usual," she replied. "School." "You are enjoying your computer studies?" "Oh, immensely," said Janine. "Programming is so logical. And once you master the basics, it can be ... um ..." "Boring?" I suggested. "Thrilling." Janine gave me a dirty look."
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However, I knew Mimi would want me to play, so I agreed to.
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You just said you had been thinking about it for awhile," Dawn cut in. "Thinking about it," I said. "But you know me --" "I thought I did." Dawn jammed some bean curd in her mouth."
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Jenny didn't know how to share. She wouldn't cooperate with the other children. She said she wanted to play by herself, but when the other kids left her alone, she complained bitterly. "Nobody likes me," she wailed. She was sitting at a picnic table making a get-well card. She lowered her head onto her arm, the picture of despair."
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Janine sat down and began playing pat-a-cake with Lucy. "It was very exciting," she replied. "Physics and astronomy are a fascinating combination of science--" "Janine!" I exclaimed, irritated. "What?" She let go of Lucy's hands. "I don't believe you!" I exploded. "What?" Janine said again. She stood up. I stood, too, and we faced each other. Jamie looked on with interest. "You didn't even ask about Mimi," I accused her. "Or about Mom."
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Janine shook her head. Then she stomped into the house. "Mean Janine," I muttered. "Come on, Jamie. Let's go." Janine had spoiled my whole afternoon."
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And what did my mother think the Babysitters Club was, I wondered. A game?
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shook my head. Then, tears welling up in my eyes, I fled down the hall to the lounge and sat in front of the soda machines until it was time to go home.
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No ripping the barre out of the wall.
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I am never falling in love again! It hurts too much.
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Love is unpredictable. It can be painful. It can be wonderful.
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I looked at Andrew and at Nannie. I loved them and the rest of my family very much. I loved my friends too. For now that was enough love for me.
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Mom opened her mouth to say something, then closed it, hesitating. After a few more silent seconds, she said, "Just so you're prepared, dear--" I cringed. Whatever was coming didn't sound good. "--I want you to know that you're going to be scheduled for a series of tests with a new doctor in New York at the beginning of December." I groaned. "He's someone Uncle Eric heard about on a television program." "We're going to a doctor because Uncl..
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Uncle Joe says they're running around like thirty-year-olds." Claudia looked confused. "Is that supposed to be young?" "To him," I replied."
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I love Mary Anne dearly, but she was no help. She still thinks you score touchdowns in baseball.)
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thought for sure someone would screech or gasp or fall off the bed.
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On Claud, though, the look is very cool.) For example, today she was wearing a neon green tank top under a white oversized man's shirt and fuschia pink stirrup pants. The shirt was rolled at the sleeves and belted with a colorful woven belt. Claud finished the outfit with dangly ceramic-bead earrings she'd made herself in pottery class. She's super artistic. She paints, sketches, draws, sculpts. You name it! Besides art and cool clothing, C..
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Maybe by the time she was a parent there would be automatic diaper-changers
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Say things you'd like to hear if you were in the audience. Make the audience feel good. Flatter them." "Flatter them." "Just use good sense." "Claudia?" "Yeah?" "I think maybe I was born without good sense."
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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, thanks. I guess I better practice if I want to live up to that name."
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Don't do it," I said. "Please? I mean, I understand that you want revenge, but two wrongs don't make a right." I didn't to sound like a teacher; the words just popped out."
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Really, Kristy, a sweater with snowflakes and snowmen on it? You look like a four-year-old." "Well, you've got sheep barrettes in your hair," I yelled. "You think they're adult?" "Sheep," Claudia informed me witheringly, "are in." "Who cares?"
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I remembered that Stacey was wearing a matching top and skirt made of gray sweatshirt material with big yellow number tens all over it. Her hair was pinned back with clips shaped like rainbows. Little silver whistles were dangling from her ears. It was all very cool, but it seemed kind of young looking. And she was drinking a glass of milk.
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if Dawn
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In a few days, I'll be hitting the surf Down Under. Maybe you'll get there, too, someday. You'd like it, Kelea." He smiled at me. "You know, I'm kind of a loner. I've never been used to having friends. But I think you were my friend, and I think I learned something from that. I wanted to thank you." He paused. Then he did something that really surprised me. He pulled the snake ring off his finger and handed it to me. "I want you to have thi..
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store, such as Bloomingdale's
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Mohawk Indians are part of the large Iroquois nation. And the Iroquois Indians lived in longhouses, not teepees.
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Diabetes is a disease which affects your blood sugar level. I have to give myself injections of something called insulin twice a day and stick to a strict diet, which means NO SUGAR, NO SWEETS. If I don't, I could get really sick.
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Lake Dekanawida
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And dried toothpaste is all over the floor. I think Jackie dropped his tube and then stepped on it.
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housekeeper. She's like the absentminded professor in that old movie. Then there are Jessi Ramsey and Mallory Pike, junior officers in the club. Jessi and Mal are best friends. They're also sixth-graders, while the rest of us are eighth-graders. We all go to Stoneybrook Middle School. Mal and Jessi are both the oldest kids in their families, both love horses, both love to read, both think their parents treat them like infants -- even though..
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Jessi is the only black student in the sixth grade),
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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 a few matches or something like that.
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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 --
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Kristy sat up very straight in the director's chair. She adjusted her visor. "As you know," she said, "today we are going to induct two new members into the club." Jessi and Mal grinned at each other, but I thought, "Induct?" Who's Kristy kidding? First she comes up with this fancy word, which just means to introduce them into the club officially." --
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I wished Charlotte had asked for me. It made me feel like I wasn't a good sitter or something, even though I knew that wasn't really true.
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I knew he needed to get out of Connecticut, but couldn't he see what he was doing to our family? It was bad enough that Mom and Dad were divorced. Still, Mom and Jeff and I managed to seem like a little family. If Jeff left, it would be hard to think of Mom and me as a family. I love my mom, but I knew that the two of us were going to feel like the ends of a loaf of bread, with all the other slices gone. I wanted at least one more slice. ..
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