Beans on the Roof by Betsy Byars

Author:Betsy Byars [Byars, Betsy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56718-5
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 1988-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

One Bean on the Roof

“String!”

It was the next day. George was back on the roof. He was alone.

“String! String Bean!”

George looked across the street. Frankie was in the window.

“What you doing?” Frankie yelled.

George did not answer.

“Still writing your po-em?”

George frowned. It was hard to write a poem. It was impossible to write one with Frankie watching him.

“You want to play ball?” Frankie yelled. “Or would you rather write your po-em?”

Mrs. Bean heard Frankie. She called out the window. “He can’t play ball, Frankie. It’s too close to suppertime.” Then she added, “And the word is not po-em. It’s poem.”

Frankie said, “Yes, Mrs. Bean.” Then he went back into his apartment.

Mrs. Bean said to Jenny, “I thought I asked you to go up and get George.”

“I did, but he won’t come. He wants to finish his roof poem.”

“Tell him he can finish it later.”

“He won’t listen to me, Mama. I told him there were lots of people—important people—who didn’t have roof poems. I told him George Washington didn’t have a roof poem. I told him Abraham Lincoln didn’t have one either.”

“And he still wouldn’t come down?”

“He said George Washington and Abraham Lincoln didn’t need roof poems. He said they weren’t Beans.”

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