Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood

Author:Augusta Scattergood
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: United States, Juvenile Fiction, 20th Century, Historical, General
ISBN: 9780545452328
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-08-01T07:00:00+00:00

When Robbie’s car started up again, I was shaking. My fingernails dug into the backseat.

“You think that policeman’s gonna get us in trouble somehow?” I finally asked. “Daddy will skin us alive if he finds out you’re not shopping with Mary Louise and that we got stopped by the police.” I dug my fingernails even deeper. “Once Daddy is done with us, it’ll be Emma’s turn to skin our hides.”

“We didn’t do anything wrong,” Robbie answered.

“If you don’t count Jesslyn lying to a policeman,” I said.

We were back in town now. Robbie stopped the car in front of our house.

“Not here! Y’all better let me out by the library,” I told him. “I’ll walk home.” The last thing I needed was for Emma to see me getting out of Robbie’s car.

“You know, Glory,” Jesslyn said, without even turning around to look at me, “you shouldn’t go sneaking into people’s business. Don’t tell anything about today. Anything you saw. Or anything you heard.”

“I didn’t hear anything.” I was gonna try real hard to keep Robbie’s secret. Not like the time I blabbed to Emma that Jesslyn had broken our mama’s china cat statue when I’d promised I wouldn’t tell. Or when I let it slip to Frankie that Emma had sewed lace to Jesslyn’s underpants for pep squad tryouts. Nope, not like that. This time I was keeping a real secret.

As long as I lived, I’d never tell this story. If I lived long enough to stand a shakedown by Emma or Daddy.

Robbie let me out around the corner from the library. “Glory, I’ll be back at the house soon after you get there,” Jesslyn said.

When I got home, Emma was waiting on the front porch. “You been at the library all this time?”

“Yessum.”

“Get in here, Glory. Where’s Jesslyn? She promised she’d be back before dark.”

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