School was okay today. Actually, it was better than okay. Angeline got her long, beatiful hair tangled in her backpack, and the school nurse - who is now one of my main heroes -snipped two feet of silky blond hair from the left side of her head, so now Angeline only looks like The Prettiest Girl in the World if you're standing on her right. (Although personally, I think she would look better i…
I thought about it until my head hurt and I heard another voice within me. Telling me that I had been a fool... Living in a fairy-tale world but failing to see my prince when he tried to rescue me.
So now I'm friends with Angeline. This is Automatic Friendship, and I have to just accept it and make the best of things. See, if I objected, then Aunt Carol might divorce Angeline's uncle, sending both of them tumbling into a deep pit of depression for the rest of their lives, and Angeline could wind up feeling so guilty that she would have to go be locked up in an old dirty insane asylum for…
Sometimes the snow falls soft upon our heads and you and I sleep silently in our little beds ... It's icy cold and the farm is wrapped in snow when Boom takes Daisy to meet the newborn lambs. When Woolverton, the most curious lamb, goes missing, Daisy and Boom must search the frozen woods to find what has been lost ...
"I - I - I beg your pardon," Daisy said uncertainly, "but did you say something to me?" "Of Course," replied the dog. "It would have been rude not to." Every morning Daisy the daydreamer swings down the lane to Nettlegreen Primary School, saying hello to the animals she meets along the way. But imagine her surprise when one day they start to talk back ...
Ricky could, that's who. Ever since he was attacked by a dog when he was just a little kid, he's been afraid of dogs. So even though the pup is tiny and skinny, with sad brown eyes and a friendly, wagging tail, Ricky doesn't want it hanging around the farm. The barn cats aren't about to share their food with a dog, and it looks as if the pup will starve to death unless someone comes to its r…
Meet Joe Spud, the richest 12-year-old in the world. Joe has everything he could ever want: his own Formula One racing car, a thousand pairs of trainers, even an orang-utan for a butler! Yes, Joe has everything he wants, but there's just one thing he really needs: a friend...
Diana and Archie were not allowed to go to the neighbouring mansion. Everyone said that the owner of the mansion was a witch! Otherwise, how could you explain the presence of a black tomcat and bottles and pots containing strange potions? The truth was that the witch hated intruders and Diana and Archie were too curious and inquisitive ...
Dear Dumb Diary, Isabella is probably right. She almost always is. When I think back on all the things I've seen Angeline do, the one thing they have in common is that they're all dumb. (They're all strawberry - scented, too, but I think that's just her conditioner - although her body might actually secrete its own strawberry scent.) But of all the dumb things she's ever done, this has got to…
Starting fourth grade at a new school was a pretty big deal for me because I'd never actually been to a real school before. No, I hadn't been living on the moon or anything. It's just that I'd always been homeschooled. I thought "real" school would be fun, but once I got there I was teased for being new and for looking different (I'm part Caucasian, African American and Asian). Was going to sch…