Year of the Rat by Grace Lin

Author:Grace Lin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Young Adult, Contemporary, Childrens
ISBN: 9780316114264
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Published: 2007-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

MY LOST LIBRARY BOOK!

I couldn’t believe it. That’s where the book was this whole time! I must have mailed it to her by mistake when I sent her the Cheerleaders books. And she had read it, too. I wondered if Ms. Magon would add a new star next to Melody’s name.

Chapter 19

Bad Grade

EVEN THOUGH I HAD FOUND MY LIBRARY BOOK, I still felt like my tiger luck had left me, because when Ms. Magon handed Charlotte, Becky, and me our grades on the Viking project, we got a C+! That was the lowest grade I had ever gotten. What would Mom and Dad say? Ms. Magon wrote on our paper, “The candy boat was very cute, but it didn’t show me what you knew about the Vikings. Also, it didn’t look like there was enough work done for a three-person project.”

“Are your parents going to get mad at you for not getting an A?” Charlotte asked when she saw my face. “You always get A’s. They shouldn’t get mad because you got a bad grade once.”

That was true. And the more I thought about it, the more I began to think Charlotte was right. Mom and Dad were too picky. One bad grade was not a big deal.

Unfortunately, Mom didn’t think that way at all. When I told her about my grade (Dad wasn’t home yet), she looked at me very seriously. I knew I was in trouble.

“You got a C!” Mom said. “That’s not very good. What happened?”

“I don’t know,” I said defensively. “Ms. Magon just gave me one.”

“There must be a reason,” Mom said. “You should have done much better.”

“I don’t know why you think it’s such a big deal!” I burst out. “Everyone gets bad grades in my class. I don’t always have to get A’s!”

“It’s not about the grade,” Mom said. “Tell the truth, did you do the best you could on the project?”

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