Ten Ways to Make My Sister Disappear by Norma Fox Mazer

Author:Norma Fox Mazer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2007-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

“WELL, class,” Mr. Julius says, unhinging himself from behind his desk and standing up, “I want to thank you all for your personal essays.”

Sprig notices that he’s wearing his orange tie again, the one with pumpkins on it, but somehow she doesn’t mind as much as she did just a few days ago. So many other things seem more important, or maybe just one other thing — the news that Dad is going to Afghanistan.

“You’re going to correct your essays right now, folks. I saw quite a few careless mistakes and a lot of misspelled words.”

Is he looking at Sprig? She was in such a hurry when she copied over the essay Sunday night. Which seems like a thousand years ago. A thousand years before Mom told them about Dad and Afghanistan. Mr. Julius starts through the aisles, handing back the essays. When he gets to Russell, he says, “Skimpy on the details there, Russell. Your family in four lines?”

Sprig turns around. Russell is laughing along with everyone else. He grins at her and holds up four fingers, as if he’s proud of his four-line essay.

“Class, one more thing before you start working,” Mr. Julius says, as he goes back to his desk. “Any questions about what I wrote on your paper, consult the person sitting behind you.”

Oh, terrific. That means Russell. But never mind, she’s not going to ask him anything. Look what Mr. Julius wrote across the top of her paper: Nicely done introduction to your family, Sprig. She’s pretty sure he didn’t write that for Russell’s skimpy four lines! She deflates a little as she looks at her essay and counts the number of misspelled words Mr. Julius circled in red. She’s never been a super speller, but seven misspelled words at one blow might be a record. What was she thinking of when she wrote lite hearted? Dumb mistake. She corrects it. Next, engeneer, a totally careless mistake. Dad taught her to spell that word before she even knew what it meant. Ridiculus is another careless mistake — leaving out one letter in her haste to finish the paper. But what about espechally, sereous, superor, and extremly?

Russell taps her on the back. “Hey, Ewing. I’m done with mine. Six more sentences. You having any problems?” Without waiting for an answer, he peers over her shoulder. “Aha! I zee you have zee trouble with zee spelling.”

“Russell, stop bothering me!” Sprig flaps her hand at him. “Go away.” She has to concentrate. Is it supperier? Or souperier? Or neither?

Russell slides a note onto her desk.

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