The New Kid by Karen English

Author:Karen English
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

After school, there’s his mother sitting in her car with the motor idling. Gavin has a miserable thought. What if his mother has to pick him up and drop him off all the way through high school? He supposes lots of kids are dropped off and picked up by their mothers until they’re old enough to drive, but still, he’d rather imagine himself on his blue-and-silver bike, riding with his friends. Until he gets a car.

Suddenly Richard, Carlos, and Calvin are beside him, straddling their bikes. “I’ll let you know what I find out,” Richard says. “Then we can go early Saturday morning—really early—and get it.”

“What if he comes out and catches you?” Calvin says.

“That’s why we have to do it early, while everyone is still asleep,” Gavin explains, trying to sound more sure of himself than he feels.

“You could get caught. Maybe by his father,” Carlos says, his eyes big. “And what if the bike is locked?”

“Everything is going to work out,” Richard says. “I have a feeling.”

“There he is,” Carlos announces. They all follow Carlos’s pointing finger to watch Khufu take the bike out of the rack, climb onto it, and start down the street.

“See you,” Richard says. He waits a bit, then starts down the street behind Khufu. Far behind.

Gavin climbs into the back seat of his mother’s car and says, “Mom, can I spend the night at Richard’s on Friday?” He knows Saturdays are chore days. All morning he cleans his room and sweeps the back porch and front porch and does whatever his mother thinks up. But maybe just this once.

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