Play Dates by Leslie Carroll

Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Divorced women, Contemporary Women, Humorous, New York (N.Y.), Fiction, Humorous fiction, Mothers and daughters, General
ISBN: 9780060596064
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005-01-06T02:41:20+00:00

PLAY DATES

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“You know what they say on New Year’s Day?” She shakes her head. “Out with the old and in with the new.” I grab my champagne glass and raise it in a toast.

“Out with the old and in with the new!” Zoë echoes. “Happy New Year, Mommy,” she adds with shiny eyes.

I give her a hug and our glasses meet behind her back.

“Happy new year, kiddo.”

Chapter 13

J ANU AR Y

Dear Diary:

I hate school. I hate gym most. Now that it’s wintertime, we don’t play outside anymore for recess and gym. We play poison ball and kickball in the gym and we have tumbling and swimming.

Tumbling is the only one I like. I’m not good at playing ball. Some of the kids are really fast and some of them play like it’s hockey like we played at Xander’s birthday party and they bump into you and knock you down. Xander and his friend Asha knocked into me when we were playing poison ball and I fell down and got a big bump on my leg. They didn’t even say they were sorry.

It’s so noisy in the gym, too. Everyone is yelling and it makes an echo and it gives me a headache. The gym teacher, Mr. Sparks, said he didn’t believe me and he was going to call Mommy and ask her if I really get headaches from loud noises. He did call Mommy and Mommy told him that I got headaches so now I don’t have to play ball in the gym anymore.

They put me in swimming instead. All the girls in my class made fun of me because of my bathing suit. It used to be my fa-

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