Just add magic rating12/12/2023 ![]() ![]() It only took a second for me to realize there was no tamale, tomato, turnovers, or anything else starting with the letter T. "It’s a World Book Encyclopedia, Volume T."Įncyclopedia? Yuck! Darbie tossed the book like it was a hot tamale burning her fingers. I wiped the rest of the book off with the bottom of my T-shirt. For a book to capture Darbie’s attention, I figured it must’ve been something pretty interesting. Look, Kell, Darbie said excitedly, dusting off a book. However, I needed the money, and any time I could spend hanging with one of my BFFs couldn’t be all that bad. I wasn’t thrilled to spend my last day of summer vacation cleaning the attic. Oh, BTW, I’m Kelly Quinn, age twelve, seventh-grader, lover of all things cooking, mediocre soccer player, average student, and best friend to Darbie O’Brien and Hannah Hernandez. I don’t love them myself, unless it’s my journal or one of my cookbooks. ![]() Last time I did, she Rollerbladed over my sandwich: smoked ham and Muenster cheese, with honey mustard on rye.)īooks are blah to Darbie. She blew off the dust, her skin shining with sweat, and I noticed her freckles were dark from her beach tan. She says she doesn’t want any of it, I said.ĭarbie lifted a heavy old book out of a tub full of old books, magazines, and newspapers. Her basement flooded years ago, and presto, we got her junk, I said. Where did all this junk-arooni come from? she asked. Darbie sat among the piles of attic stuff, rubbing her head. I had missed Darbie this summer while she had been at her dad’s house at the beach and I had been at camp. Darbie Rollerbladed in the clutter-free areas, careful not to bang her head on the rafters. Spider-webby attic on their last day of summer vacation.Ĭorrection: I, Kelly Quinn, was cleaning. Question: What do you get when you mix two girlsĪnswer: Kelly Quinn and Darbie O’Brien in a dark, dusty, ![]()
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