Friends Forever? by Brann Garvey

Author:Brann Garvey [Gallagher, Diana G]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Peer Pressure
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2020-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

Tommy looked at me. He cocked his head and asked, “How many straw wrappers can you make from one tree?”

“I don’t know,” I admitted. I didn’t have an answer. Someone had finally noticed the note on my shirt, and I didn’t know what to say.

“Beats me,” Becca said, shrugging.

“Thousands,” Adam said. “Maybe even a million.”

“Let’s say it’s A MILLION,” Peter said. He found a pen in his backpack and started to scribble on his napkin. “Six kids times five days a week. We’d have to save our straw wrappers for 33,000 Weeks to save one tree,” Peter said.

“How many years is that?” Becca asked.

Peter scribbled more numbers.

“Six hundred and thirty-five,” Peter said. “If I don’t subtract vacation weeks.”

Sometimes I wish that Peter wasn’t so smart.

“Let’s say we recycle straw wrappers until we graduate from high school,” Tommy said. “We might save a twig.” He held his hands two inches apart and added, “A twig about this big.”

“Unless everyone at school recycles straw wrappers,” I said. “Then it wouldn’t take so long to save a whole tree.”

“Okay! Okay!” Adam yelled. He threw up his hands. “I’ll recycle my straw wrappers.”

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