Margie Kelly Breaks the Dress Code by Bridget Farr

Author:Bridget Farr [FARR, BRIDGET]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2021-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“Please, Daniela, come with me. It won’t take long,” I beg. Daniela marches a few steps ahead of me on her way to world cultures, her shoulders turning, her body curving as she slides through the crowded halls. “It will take two seconds to tell her about the protest. If she’s not interested, we’ll come straight back to school.”

“I have Quiz Bowl,” she says, yanking the bottom of her backpack strap to tighten it. Without thinking, I pull on mine, too.

“We have Quiz Bowl. Just tell the Kings you’re meeting with a teacher.”

Daniela turns to me with a look of horror. “I can’t say I’m at tutoring! Quiz Bowl kids do not need tutoring. Ever.”

I sigh. “Fine, then say that it’s not for tutoring, but an award or something. Please, Daniela. 7-Eleven is right across the street. It won’t take more than ten minutes.”

“What makes you think she’ll even say yes?”

“She might not, but she said she gets dress coded all the time. She’s got to be fed up. And we at least have to try. This protest is going nowhere without an eighth grader on our side.”

Daniela gets a drink from the water fountain, her ponytail sliding over her shoulder. She stands up and flicks it back, staring at me as if she’s trying to solve a puzzle and I’m the clue.

“I still don’t get why you need me to go with you. You said you talked to Gloria and her friends when you were in ISS.”

“I’ll seem like a weirdo if I go by myself. It’ll be more convincing if there’s two of us.”

“Can’t we go some other time? Before school or something? I really don’t want to miss practice.”

I shake my head. “I don’t know when she gets here in the morning, but she goes to 7-Eleven after school. They were talking about it that day in ISS. Please, Daniela.”

“Fine,” she says, turning the handle to Ms. Anthony’s room. “But we have to be fast.”

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