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the strands fell through his fingers. "I have to go," he said softly."
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You're supposed to take the man that has the best chance of survival.
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wanted a toilet
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houses down,
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Die
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Because there's a big hole in their brains where most people have a conscience.
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We is so much better than I.
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shipshape honeymoon hotel.
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I listened to the 911 tape. The caller had a British accent and sounded scared. In fact, the fear in her voice and whatever she wasn't saying were more alarming than what she said.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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What?" says Kosgrov. "You think I won't lay you out just because you're stuck in a wheelchair, funny boy?" "Yeah," I say. "Pretty much." Turns out I'm pretty wrong."
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She sugared and milked
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Stevie Kosgrov punched me just like I was a regular, normal kid
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I can see why you, sir, are the champ. You bully without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, or physical abilities. You are an equal-opportunity tormentor.
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troubled. I hope I'm wrong. But I really need to run along. It was nice meeting you, Graham." [Editor's" --
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there, but it was some half-assed firework or
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Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your 'rents? Says your sibs?
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This is what I actually looked like when I got to school that first morning of sixth grade.
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so imagine the day your great-great-grandmother was born. Got it? Now go back another hundred years or so. And then another hundred. That's about when they built Hills Village Middle School. Of course, I think it was a prison for Pilgrims back then, but not too much has changed. Now it's a prison for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders.
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You've already seen what I look like, so you can probably guess which one I chose. As soon as I got to homeroom, I went straight for the back row and sat as far from the teacher's desk as possible. There was just one problem with that plan, and his name was Miller. Miller the Killer, to
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And because I'm the world's biggest idiot sometimes, I didn't look back when I went to sit in my chair. Which is why I hit the dirt as I went down--all the way down--to the floor. The good news? Given the way things had started off, I figured middle school could only get better from here.
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By the time we got to Section 6 ("Grounds for Expulsion"), my brain was turning into guacamole, and I'm pretty sure my ears were"
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And I pulled the alarm.
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Everyone remain calm! Line up with your teachers and proceed in an orderly fashion to the nearest exits." I'm not sure who she was talking to. It looked like the whole school was already out here in the hall. And in the parking lot. And on the soccer field. And on the basketball courts."
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I opened up my copy of the Code of Conduct and turned to Section 11, Rule 3: "Students shall not tamper with smoke or fire alarms under any circumstances." Then I took Leo's pen and drew a line right through it. That felt pretty good too. One rule down and... well, all the rest to go."
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School was unbelievable," I said. "I kind of, well, sort of, met this amazing girl, and then I set off the fire alarm during an assembly--" Okay, that's not what I really said, but it wouldn't have mattered if I did. Bear's not exactly a good listener."
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Don't worry, I didn't forget I'm a loser, Loser," I said as I zoomed down the hall. "DID YOU JUST CALL ME A LOSER?" Bear roared back."
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Now Mom was working double shifts at the diner all the time just to make enough money, and Bear was spending 99 percent of his time on our couch, except maybe to go to the bathroom or to collect his stupid unemployment check.
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of all, it needed a name. I thought about it for a while and came up with Operation R.A.F.E., which stands for: Rules Aren't For Everyone
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I decided that every rule in the Hills Village Middle School Code of Conduct should be worth a certain number of points, depending on how hard it was to break. Of course, this meant I could get into some serious trouble, so I decided to make that worth a bunch of points too.
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How about you, Rafe?" she asked when Georgia finally took a breath. "What do you think of middle school so far?" "Well," I said, "it's not as bad as I thought it was going to"
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Mom said. "I'm proud of you, honey. You must be doing something right. Whatever it is, just keep doing it." "Oh, I will," I told her, just before I shoved some more scrambled eggs into my big fat not-quite-lying mouth."
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Mom and Bear got into a big fight that afternoon when she told him what had happened. He kept yelling about how she wasn't "hard enough" on me, and she kept telling him to back off. I just stayed in my room, wishing for it to be over. Finally, Mom said something about how she was late for work, and she slammed the door on her way out."
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Are you getting bored yet?)
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fictitious.
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It was Katie Kim.
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Life goes on, doesn't it? Bud Rankin dies. A baby is born.
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after a torrential rain. Acadia and her
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I may have been dressed as a falcon, but I'll tell you what. I felt like the biggest
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Thanksgiving turkey in the world.
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Rafe jumped Miller!" Gabe said. The problem was, it was true. There were about three dozen witnesses."
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AND NOW--THE GOOD STUFF You look at me, and I know what you're thinking: "Zac Efron without the hot legs."
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WITH BROTHERS LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?
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Se necesita a todo un pueblo para criar bien a un nino>>.
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