Much Ado About Anne by Heather Vogel Frederick

Author:Heather Vogel Frederick [Frederick, Heather Vogel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781416996835
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

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“Anne, you certainly have a genius for getting into trouble.”

—Anne of Green Gables

Field trip day.

This used to be my favorite day of the whole school year. When I was little, I couldn’t wait to go to Boston to the Aquarium, or to Paul Revere’s house, or Plymouth Plantation where you got to talk to a real live Pilgrim (okay, so I was dumb back in elementary school and I thought there were actual Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation, not actors dressed up as Pilgrims). Field trips used to be so much fun.

Not this year.

Right after Thanksgiving, when they told us where we were going, I burst out laughing. I actually thought they were kidding! I still can’t believe we’re only going to Walden Pond.

I guess it’s some big tradition at Walden Middle School. It’s called “Namesake Day,” and we’ve been preparing for it for months. They made us all read Walden in English class—which is such a boring book my eyes nearly fell out of my head—and then in science we’ve been studying the wildlife that Henry David Thoreau observed when he was living in his stupid cabin at the pond, and of course we had to make models of the cabin for social studies. My mother thinks this is all just about the greatest idea in the history of the world, naturally, and she volunteered right away to go along as a chaperone. Fortunately, she has a board meeting today for the Concord Riverkeepers, so she couldn’t come. I don’t think I could stand one more crack about “Handcuffs Wong.”

I wish I were an eighth grader. They’re so lucky—they get to go to Washington, DC, and tour the White House and the Capitol and the Smithsonian and all that stuff. Even though I’ve been to Washington already with my parents, given a choice between going there again and having to tromp around Walden Pond, which is exactly five miles from my house, and where I’ve spent nearly every day of every summer since before I can remember, I’d pick DC in a flash.

I climb reluctantly on to the bus and head down the aisle toward the back where Becca and Jen and Ashley are saving me a seat. They like to sit as close to the boys as possible. Emma and Jess and Cassidy are sitting together near the front, but I don’t look at them as I pass by. Traitors.

They tried to convince me that Becca masterminded the whole “Handcuffs Wong” thing, but Becca said I shouldn’t believe them. Not after that mean trick they tried to play on her on Hello Boston!

And after all I did for them too, helping with their stupid fund to try and save Half Moon Farm.

A little spark of guilt flares up inside me when I think about Half Moon Farm, but I push it away. Becca smiles and pats the seat beside her and I slide in. Becca is the only one who really understands how humiliated I was by the Woodsman article.

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