If it was a snake, it would’ve bit you. Odd words from your grandmother, meaning that whatever you were looking for was practically right in front of you but you didn’t see it.
Terri Schlichenmeyer
How many leaves are on the tree outside your window? That’s a question you may not be able to answer. How could you even count them all?
Pick up your toys! How boring is that? It’s much more exciting to get things out than it is to put them away, right?
Wrapping is for ripping. Ribbons are for untying, and boxes are for dumping out and climbing in. And why not?
On your first day of school, you become a first-grader.
Summer’s almost over, and when you go back to school, there’s one thing you’re going to miss: your dog.
You are a big kid. No, you’re not a baby anymore. You can tie your shoes, comb your own hair, and nobody needs to feed you.
Let’s get this out in the open: “Rusty Summer” is OK. A six out of 10, just slightly better than middling. In its favor, I liked the characters in this book; they’re all decent people, the kind you’d want in your corner. I was truly drawn to their good hearts. What I didn’t like was the overabundance of slang here.
His guide, Thelma Rudd, confirmed it. Oliver, known as “Boo” to his classmates because of his pale-pale skin, had been “rebirthed.” He’d “passed” into this place everyone called “Town,” where he’d forever be 13 years old, skinny and non-athletic.
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