Clementine's Letter by Sara Pennypacker

Author:Sara Pennypacker [Pennypacker, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781423198628
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Published: 2009-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

I peeled the lid off my yogurt and licked it. “She doesn’t like me.”

“Oh, that can’t be true!” my mom said. Which she had to say because she’s my mother. “There must be another reason. If you could figure it out, maybe you could fix things.”

My mom grabbed Water Chestnut as he ran by and tried to put on his jacket. I watched for a while, but she wasn’t getting anywhere. “He’s playing Spaghetti Boy,” I explained. “Be Tree Boy,” I told him. “Make Branch Arms.” My brother got fooled by this and my mom got his jacket on.

She zipped him up. “Thanks, Clementine. See what I mean? Sometimes you have to figure out the problem before you can figure out the solution.”

That sounded like a good thing to remember, so I wrote it on my arm. My mom picked up my brother and carried him to the door because he was still being a tree. “Your father’s out back. The masons are here—they’re starting the new brick garden wall. Do you want to go watch them?”

I dropped my spoon. I’d been waiting all month for this, because I love bricks. I love how pretty the white mortar looks next to the red clay. I love how each brick is set exactly halfway over the one beneath it, so each row ends with either a full brick or a half a brick. I love how even it is, all the way to the top of the wall, even if the wall is a hundred stories high.

I love bricks so much that when my family made a gingerbread house last Christmas I made the sides of it with Dentyne gum for bricks and used frosting for mortar. It cost me two weeks allowance for all that gum, but it was worth it.

I thought about how much I wanted to watch the masons. And then I thought of my mom’s present. “No thanks,” I said. “I have something to do this afternoon.”

Before I got going with my idea, I went to my dad’s night table to see how he was coming with his book. Not so good. Under

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