The Wonder of Charlie Anne by Kimberly Newton Fusco

Author:Kimberly Newton Fusco [Fusco, Kimberly Newton]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-375-89555-5
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2010-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

26

I run across the road and into the barn, where I hurry out of my trousers and fold them as small as I can make them and hide them inside the apple barrel and walk back outside as calm as can be so no one can see how happy my heart is feeling about everything. It is a nice change.

“Oh, Charlie Aaaa-aaaanne!” I hear from up in the tree by the barn. “We saw you. We saw you over at that house with that colored girl!”

Ivy and Becky Ellis are high in the apple tree, looking down at me. They throw apples on my head.

“We’re going to telllllllll on you.” Ivy is laughing. “And what’s that you were wearing when you went in the barn? Tell us. Was it something yellooow?”

A few more apples fall on my head. “Mirabel told you to stay away from that colored girl, and now you’re going to really get the what-for,” says Ivy.

Five apples fall on me all at once. Then Ivy starts climbing down.

“Fine, go ahead, Ivy,” I say, stepping out of the way of any more falling apples. “At least I’m not spending my time kissing Becky Ellis’s shoes.”

When I get up to the house, Mirabel tells me to get the clothes on the line. “Take Birdie with you. She’s been pestering me all day. Where’ve you been, anyway?”

Birdie does not understand how when you are with Mirabel, you should not be asking her a hundred questions every five minutes, and you should especially not be asking, “Where is Charlie Anne?”

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