Isabelle the Itch: the Isabelle Series, book One
“Isabelle told Mrs. Stern next day. She held the marsh-mallows in her cocoa down with the spoon until they got slippery and bobbed to the surface.
“Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes easy, sometimes in between. If it was always one or the other, things would be dull, don’t you think?” Mrs. Stern replied. “Variety’s the thing. Something wrong?”
“I got the lowest mark in the class in a spelling test,” Isabelle said.
“Did you mind that?”
“A little.”
Isabelle skimmed the marshmallow fluff off the cocoa.... “A bunch of kids had a slumber party and they didn’t invite me.”
Mrs. Stern looked at her without saying anything.
“I minded that more than the spelling test,” Isabelle said.
“Of course.” The way Mrs. Stern said that made Isabelle feel better. “I remember when I was about your age, a girl down the street from me had a birthday party and invited everybody on the block but me. I thought maybe she’d forgotten and I even went out and bought a present just in case.MoreLess
“Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes easy, sometimes in between. If it was always one or the other, things would be dull, don’t you think?” Mrs. Stern replied. “Variety’s the thing. Something wrong?”
“I got the lowest mark in the class in a spelling test,” Isabelle said.
“Did you mind that?”
“A little.”
Isabelle skimmed the marshmallow fluff off the cocoa.... “A bunch of kids had a slumber party and they didn’t invite me.”
Mrs. Stern looked at her without saying anything.
“I minded that more than the spelling test,” Isabelle said.
“Of course.” The way Mrs. Stern said that made Isabelle feel better. “I remember when I was about your age, a girl down the street from me had a birthday party and invited everybody on the block but me. I thought maybe she’d forgotten and I even went out and bought a present just in case.MoreLess
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