Teacher's Pet by Johanna Hurwitz

Author:Johanna Hurwitz [Hurwitz, Johanna]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
Published: 2014-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

“P-R-E-J-E-W-D-I-S-E,” Lucas spelled.

“I’m sorry,” said the teacher. “That’s incorrect.”

“Cricket. Can you spell prejudice?”

Cricket held out her hand to grab the dictionary. But she remembered her promise not to cheat. If no one saw her, what difference would it make? No one would know. Then she shook her head and lowered her hand. She would just make a guess. She was a natural speller. She would probably get it right, anyhow.

“P-R-E-J-U-D-I-S-E,” she spelled.

“I’m sorry, Cricket. That is not correct. If Zoe can spell it, she will be the winner. But if she can’t, we will have a three-way tie.”

Cricket held her breath. Please, please, let Zoe get it wrong.

“P-R-E-J-U-D-I-C-E,” Zoe spelled.

“Correct!” called Mrs. Schraalenburgh. “Zoe, you have won the spelling bee.”

There was a loud cheer in the classroom, and Cricket pulled the telephone receiver away from her ear so she didn’t have to listen. She felt the tears fill her eyes and then begin to slide down her cheeks. Why could that awful Zoe Mitchell spell prejudice if she couldn’t? Probably it was on her spelling list in her old school. It just wasn’t fair. The only good thing was that no one could see Cricket crying. That was the advantage to losing a spelling bee over the telephone.

Something else happened, however, that was much worse than losing. On Saturday, Cricket’s father showed her a small piece at the bottom of the one of the pages in the Evening Star. It was part of the column that Zoe’s stepfather wrote three times a week. “Sometimes Crickets and bees don’t mix as well as they might like,” he had written.

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