President of the Whole Sixth Grade: Girl Code by Sherri Winston

Author:Sherri Winston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

Top Reasons Why I Should Have an Online Business:

1. Kids who own their own businesses learn how to be innovative, which is very important to our economy.

2. Owning a business teaches kids to be better planners.

3. It teaches hard work and…

“BRIANNA DIANE JUSTICE!” Gulp! Oh, no! Not the whole name!

Mom was practically vibrating as she yelled my name. I froze, heart doing a swift kick. Uh-oh. I’m dead. Brianna Justice, dead at two-fifty-eight on Sunday.

“Mom, okay, let me just say—”

“Enough!” In my whole entire life, I had never seen Mom so angry. I was standing between her and dad. Poor Miss Addy was across from us, her strange, pale eyes looking at me with sympathy.

“You have said quite enough, Miss Missy!”

Oh, no! Not Miss Missy. She only broke that one out when she was ready to send someone to prison. For real. There are convicts walking around right now who were once her Miss Missys. They did hard time, y’all.

“Jean, wait,” Dad said, reaching out for my mom. But she batted aside his hand and took a wide sidestep away from him and me.

She said, “You have pulled a lot of stunts in your day, young lady, but this really takes the cupcake. How you could even think that bringing my mother here was going to change my mind about an issue we’ve already discussed… well, you don’t know how wrong you are!”

Oh, I think I was getting a strong idea just how wrong I’d been.

But she wasn’t finished.

“Did you ever, even once, stop to think that I, we, made that decision because it was what was best for you? Did you?”

I blew out a sigh. My dry mouth turned bitter tasting and the burning in my chest that started out as fear was turning into something hotter—anger. I wasn’t the problem. She was the one trying to yank us all out of our real lives and force us to move to Washington, D.C. She had a lot of nerve being mad at me.

So I said, “I know you might’ve thought you were doing what was best for me.” Okay, look. Every kid, especially girls, knows that there is a tone you don’t use with your mom. You just don’t. Not unless you really want to yank her chain. Well, I used that tone. And oh boy did it work!

My mom got this wild-eyed expression, like a crazy ghost woman in a horror movie. She held up her hand and used her fingers to tick off point after point, going down her invisible list.

“One, I told you I believe you’re stretching yourself too thin. You want to be in everything and you just can’t. Trying to do too much is making you unfocused. You’re all over the place! Two, I told you your dad and I thought spending so much time at the bakery was keeping you from just being a kid. And three, no one ever said you could never have an online business. We said you couldn’t have one NOW! You act like eleven is at the edge of retirement.

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