Kizzy Ann Stamps by Jeri Watts

Author:Jeri Watts [Watts, Jeri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6200-4
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2012-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

I’m sure you’ve noticed how we’ve broken into groups to eat. Naturally, the white students eat separate from the black students, but also the boys eat separate from the girls. Even then, there are certain groups of boys who always eat together and certain girls who never eat with other girls. I’m one of the ones who moves from group to group. I don’t have one particular group I belong to. To be honest, I don’t really fit anywhere, but I don’t not fit either. I’m not a loner, exactly. I can work with anybody or work alone, just depends. I sit with Shag a lot, just us, when it’s still nice enough for us to eat outside. To be honest, that’s my preference, but I know my mama worries if that’s all I do, so I try to sit with other people, so that when I go home and she says, “Who’d you eat lunch with?” I can honestly say someone’s name besides Shag’s. For instance, you’ll see me eat sometimes with Sarah and Mildred. They’re okay, but they are pretty silly. Plus Mildred is scared stiff of Shag, even though I have told her Shag will not hurt her unless I tell Shag to or unless Mildred tries to hurt me. Mama says you can learn something from everyone in the world, but I don’t know what I can learn from them. I know what I learn from eating with Omera and Ovita, the twins. They hardly say boo, except when they talk to each other in their twin language, so what I learn is Christian patience. I am exhausted after eating with them, and also more than a little annoyed. But Granny Bits says it is good for my soul to be tried by fire. Well, I am getting a good workout on my patience, that’s for sure. Do you ever get lonely, eating by yourself? I’d come and eat with you, but I’m sure that would set the tongues wagging, making me look like a teacher’s pet, plus you’d get in trouble eating with one of the black kids. And maybe you like to eat alone, so you can think and have a few minutes not to have to talk. Maybe I’m a trial to you. Hmm, I hadn’t thought of that.

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