Sophie the Sweetheart by Lara Bergen

Author:Lara Bergen [by Bergen, Lara, illustrated by Laura Tallardy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-545-38830-6
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Sophie couldn’t believe it. Being sweet to Mindy had gone so well! In fact, she didn’t even have to try to be sweet anymore that day. It just happened. By itself.

Mindy smiled at Sophie when it was time to go home. And the next morning, when they got to school, she waved and said hello.

“Hi!” Sophie said back, giving Mindy a big smile. “So, how’s your hand?”

“It’s okay.” Mindy showed off a big pink bandage. It was sparkly!

Cool!

“Where did you get that?” Sophie asked. “On the Internet,” Mindy explained. “I’ll have my mom order some for you.”

Suddenly, Lily ran up and hugged Mindy. “I’m back! I was sick, but I’m all better now!” Then she turned to Sophie. “What are you doing here?” her eyes asked.

Lily started to say something. Probably “Get lost,” Sophie guessed.

But Mindy stopped her. “It’s okay.” Lily turned back to see if she’d heard right. “It is?”

Mindy nodded. “Sure. We’re all friends.” Sophie watched the idea hit Lily. She seemed as surprised as Sophie had been.

“But you can still hang up my coat, Lily,” Mindy told her. She slipped her jacket off. “Here.”

She waved to Sophie as they walked off. Sophie waved back to her and grinned.

Then — “Ooph!” — Sophie suddenly stumbled forward.

Hey! What was that?

“Out of my way!” Toby said, shoving past.

“Hey! Watch where you’re going!” Sophie began to shout.

But then she stopped. Sophie the Sweetheart couldn’t say that.

“Excuse me!” she called instead, sweetly. “I’m so sorry if I was in your way!”

Then a thought hit her — whomp! — in the very front of her brain.

Being a sweetheart to Mindy had gone way better than planned. But Mindy wasn’t the only hard-to-be-sweet-to kid in her class. Sophie could almost hear the other kids saying, “Wow! Can you believe how sweet Sophie is to Mindy? And Toby, too?”

And better yet, if she listened hard, she could almost hear Toby saying something, as well. Something like “I forgot how nice you were, Sophie. Do you want to be friends again?”

She couldn’t wait to tell Kate her latest and greatest idea!

But when she did, Kate just looked worried. “Are you sure you can do this, Sophie?” she asked. “I mean, I know you said Mindy might have some good qualities. But Toby? I don’t know. Plus, how sweet can you be to him when his face makes you sick?”

“Not his whole face,” Sophie said, correcting her. Just all those freckles, and that ketchup hair, and those big beaver teeth. “And he doesn’t make me sick, exactly.” Just a little ill sometimes. “If I’m going to be a real sweetheart, I’m going to have to try my best with everyone. Even Toby.”

It was Thursday, which meant they had gym again. And that meant square dancing. Again. But this was a great chance to be sweet to Toby—one that Sophie couldn’t miss!

This time, Mr. Hurley let them pick their own partners if they wanted to.

Sophie raised her hand. She was the only one. “I pick Toby,” she declared.

“You do?!” Toby’s face got red.

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