![]() I wondered whether she was still on the fifty states.ĭoris, I'm going to contact your mother. Brown stared at me, her face made up like she had eaten some bad-smelling thing. I felt like a big, old hunk of a girl when I looked at him. Maybe they'll call him Light Bulbs or Mr. What you think Sherman is going to call that new boy? I asked. When Sherman named you that was your name for good. So when this new boy Amir came I tried to think of a name for him. But you can be taller than Dotty and still be short. Dotty is so short she looks like a little round dot. Mickey and Dotty don't look exactly alike. It fit them so good nobody bothered to give them new ones. We like Big Russell but we careful how we call him.Īnd Mickey and Dotty-the twins. ![]() But we also call him Big Hocks behind his back everybody's afraid to say that to his face. And we call Big Russell, Big Russell 'cause he's big. Like we call Yellow Bird, Yellow Bird cause he's little and pale and got a long beakish nose. I took one look at Amir and knew he'd have a hard time.įirst, he'd have to get a name. ![]() ![]() We'd all been together since last year-me, Yellow Bird, Big Russell, Mickey and Dotty, Sherman and the rest. It was hard to come to our fifth-grade class in April. And Amir looked at all of us like we was crazy. Brown asked Sherman to name the fiftieth state and he said he didn't remember but he could name the fifty-first. Yellow Bird was on the window ledge Russell crunched a big lollipop Mickey and Dotty raised their hands. ![]()
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