Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai

Author:Remy Lai
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

Ben smiles and then starts taking his books and pencil case out of his backpack. A part of me wishes he’d continue talking, but a bigger part of me is afraid I won’t understand what he says, and even if I do, he probably won’t understand my reply.

When Mr. Fart comes into the class, I’m curious if Ben will help me again while I’m reading aloud.

“Jingwen,” Mr. Fart calls.

I’m about to stand, but he hands me the multiple-choice homework from last week, the one I did using eeny-meeny-miny-moe after making Nutella cream cake. I expect a big fat goose egg.

Surprise, surprise. I got three out of ten, which is the same score I got on my previous homework, which I spent hours on looking up the meanings of all the Martian words. All that hard work didn’t matter.

Maybe things work differently here on Mars, because in my old school, I had to study like heck to change my C’s and D’s to A’s. A few months before I turned ten, I asked Mama and Papa if, instead of a small celebration at home, I could have a birthday party at school, like some of my classmates did. Mama and Papa agreed, but only if my grades improved. I’d never been a bigger bookworm than in those months, and it paid off.

But on this topsy-turvy planet, Newton didn’t have an apple fall on his head. Not only because the gravity is much weaker, but also, all the apples have been used up by me to make apple mille-feuille.

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