Foxglove

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Or: a book about 7 teenagers looking for revenge. 
            “Aub! Catch!” Celine whispered over the sounds of the alarm going off. She dropped it down from the roof, and Aubrey managed to grab it. As she winded her arm back to throw it to Jen, lithely sitting in a huge tree, she heard two feet stumbling to her. Pausing only for a moment, she caught Blair’s mutter. “They’re awake!” Aubrey let the parcel fly into the tree, where she knew Jen was waiting to hook it onto a branch. Close behind her, Annie and Jami appeared as well, and suddenly there were flashlights shining into their eyes. 
            “Hey! Get outta my house! I’m calling the police!” Cilla whooped, “We’re in your yard, not your house! Let’s go!” Aubrey and Cilla led the parade out of the neighborhood and into the woods.

Option 5: Sapphire darted into the shadow of the door, pulling Kate along with her. “Hey!” Kate whispered, but there was no more time for her sister to respond. 
            “Who’s there? Come out and look me in the eye! Yeah, that’s right, you’re too scared! Well, that’s too bad because- ahh!” The school custodian shrieked as the girls’ cat, Cici, leapt onto his shoulders. 
            “Just a cat, just a cat.” he muttered. “Whatever. This ain’t the end of me, kids!” he shouted a final time, and creakily staggered to the exit. As the door slammed behind him, Sapphire sighed. “Well, that was close. Thanks, Cici!” She patted the black cat, and turned to face her twin. 
            	“What?” Sapphire grinned. Kate was grim-faced, glaring at her while clenching her fists. “You. Are. In. So. Much. Trouble. I’m so telling Ben.” Sapphire’s mouth opened in shock. “No! You wouldn’t! That stupid, overprotective- grr!” She pouted. “Please? Just this one time?” Kate smiled. “Well, you’d owe me big-time,” she started. “And I would be able to sleep in the reading room for two weeks- no, this entire month!” The kids all knew the cozy room in the library was the most comfy place in the whole school. “Fine.” Sapphire grumbled.

Option 4: The pungent odor of sweat and vomit roused me. For a second, I wondered where I was, and then I remembered. But the stifling smell and heat was enough to make me climb up the rattling ladder onto deck. I sighed as a cool breeze refreshed me. Looking up, the stars were as bright as they were back in England. Heavy silence surrounded me, and for the first time in a week, I felt calm. The boat that was taking us to America, the New World, rocked gently around me.
            *** 
            	“Fiera, our farm isn’t raising enough for the landowner, and he says that we need to- um, find a new place to live.” I opened my mouth to speak, but my mother cut in. “We have no other option! No money, no home- we need to do something!” 
            “Your mother’s right. So, I found a man who is willing to get us land, in the Americas! Can you believe how lucky we are? They say it’s a land full of gold, and the man says all we have to do is work for him a few years, then we’re free! We keep the land, get money, and become rich!” I saw my mother nudge her husband with her elbow. My father winced, then added, “And he… said you were to marry his son, William.” 
            	I opened my mouth, then shut it. Girls and women weren’t allowed to speak back to men, but I was mad. Furious. I was… engaged! And without my permission! “It’s for the greater good.” My mother placed a hand on my arm. I glared daggers at her, but didn’t talk. “When do we leave?” I managed to ground out. “Tomorrow.”
            	I woke up from the memory, and found myself slumped on the wooden deck. I was freezing! Grabbing a blanket, I thought, I didn’t know which was worse- having to marry a man I had never met before, or dying on the ship that took me to him.

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