Looking for Me by Betsy R. Rosenthal

Author:Betsy R. Rosenthal [Rosenthal, Betsy R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nobody’s Surprised

At the school spelling bee,

nobody’s surprised

that the last one standing

is smarty-pants Helen Krashinsky,

and nobody’s surprised

that the first one down

is me.

Diner Division

I’ve missed a lot of lessons at school

because I’ve been out sick

with whooping cough—

a cough louder than the crash of coal

rumbling down the metal chute

into our cellar.

Now I’m having trouble figuring out

the problem Miss Connelly wrote

on the chalkboard:

How many gallons of gas

can someone buy at nineteen cents a gallon,

if they’ve got two dollars to spend?

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