Stars So Sweet by Tara Dairman

Author:Tara Dairman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2016-06-28T16:07:44+00:00

Chapter 16

BAKE SALE FAIRY GODMOTHER?

GLADYS’S IMPRESSION THAT HER LIFE was under control lasted all of twelve hours.

Students were posted at either side of the school’s main entrance the next morning, reaching into boxes to hand something to each kid who went through the doors. “Get your paper!” one of them shouted as Gladys approached. “Special back-to-school edition of the DTMS Telegraph!”

Although Gladys still had absolutely no desire to join the school paper, she couldn’t help but feel a little curious about how Elaine’s pet project would read. Would its features be up to New York Standard level? Or more along the lines of stories found in the typo-ridden Dumpsford Township Intelligencer?

Whatever the quality, this first issue of the school year looked short: just the front and back of one legalsized sheet of paper, folded in half. Gladys accepted her copy from the paperboy to her right, unfolded it—and froze.

There was one picture on the front page of the paper, and it was of her.

Someone bumped into her from behind. “Hey!” a kid farther back shouted. “Who’s holding up the line?”

“It’s her!” another voice shouted. “The girl in the paper!”

Gladys finally forced herself to move forward, faster and faster until she was practically running down the hallway. She spotted a bathroom and ducked inside, then locked herself in the first empty stall. Finally, heart pounding more from nerves than from her sprint, she opened the newspaper sheet again.

The picture wasn’t very flattering—it had been taken from an odd angle, and Gladys was cringing away rather than looking at the camera. Still, she noticed Owen and Charissa and the table of treats from the bake sale in the background.

But much worse than the picture was the article that went along with it.

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