IN SEVENTH grade, you grow backwards. In sixth, I kept a list of all the things I learned that showed I was growing up, and another of all the stupid, embarrassing things I did hat proved I wasn't. Most of the time they were about even. If I still kept a record of all I've done, my "backwards" list would run right off the page. In a single day-the first day of seventh grade-I accidentally squirted a teacher at the drinking fountain, tripped on the stairs to the second floor, and sat on a doughnut in the cafeteria.
" Who put a doughnut on this seat?" I asked the girl next to me.
" It's for Kim," she said.
Now what kind of an answer was that? But even Patrick laughed when it happened.
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Alice Reluctantly Alice
General FictionSeventh grade was only one day old, but suddenly Alice had this new goal: to go the whole year with everyone liking her. She didn't mean to be the "most popular girl" or anything. She just wanted teachers to smile when they said " Alice McKinley" an...
