Alice In-Between by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor [Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, GR
ISBN: 9780689318900
Goodreads: 880057
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Did she just make up the music or what?” I wanted to know.

“I think we had a book of old English ballads. It was probably in that,” he told me.

Miss Summers started at the beginning of the alphabet and called on us one at a time. The boy ahead of me recited a poem about soldiers marching off to die even when they knew they had been given the wrong order: “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

We talked a lot about that afterward. I said I didn’t think I’d ever do that. Was it courage or stupidity? someone else asked, and the debate went on so long, I figured Miss Summers wouldn’t get to me that period.

I had settled back to relax when suddenly she looked at the clock and said, “We have about ten minutes left, so I’ll leave it to you, Alice. Would you like to do yours now or wait till tomorrow? If it’s a short poem, we might finish it today.”

I wanted to get it over with. “I’ll do it now,” I said, and walked up to the front of the room.

Why do friends always look different when you face them in front of a classroom? Everybody looked so serious somehow. You’re used to seeing your friends laughing and talking in the halls, not sitting there sober-faced, staring at you. They seemed like different people entirely, and I felt rattled.

“I’ve chosen the last verse of Thanatopsis, by William Cullen Bryant,” I told them. “It was the favorite poem of someone close to me before she died, so I’d like to share it with you.” And then I began:

“There is a lady sweet and kind,

Was never face so pleased my mind;

I did but see her passing by,

And yet I love her till I die.”

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