Just Grace and the Terrible Tutu Read Free

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    WHY IT'S A GOOD THING MISS LOIS IS NOT A CARTOON CHARACTER

    If Miss Lois were a cartoon character her head would get big and smoke would come out of her ears, and then she would make a loud sound like a train whistle. That's how much she hates Owen 1 playing with his shoes.

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    Even though she tries real hard, Miss Lois can't be patient with Owen 1 forever. Every day she says the same thing: "Owen 1, will you please leave your shoes alone!" But after a while she just finally has to get mad. If she was allowed to, she would probably roll her eyes, but I don't think teachers can do that kind of thing. So instead she points to the door and says, "Owen 1, you get yourself down for a visit with Mr. Harris! Now!"'
    Mr. Harris is the principal of our whole school. And mostly he is not someone you want to visit in his office. I have a feeling that Owen 1 is probably going to have to change to lace-up shoes real soon.

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    MISS LOIS AND THE GIANT CLOUD OF BROWN
    I am not a color expert, but I bet if grumpiness were a color it would be that brown blah color you get every time you mix all your paints together in a big mushy mess. That's the kind of color no one would ever make or choose on purpose. Even though I couldn't see it, I bet that was the color of Miss Lois's grumpy cloud. It stayed up over her head all through reading, math, and spelling, and right up until lunchtime. Miss Lois tried to make her words sound happy and normal, but we could all tell the cloud was still there. The cloud made everyone not like Owen 1 even more than they had not liked him before. This was too bad, because Owen 1 did not have a whole lot of extra liking energy to lose. I was glad I was not him.

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    HOW MIMI SURPRISED ME AGAIN
    After lunch we get to have recess and go outside. Mimi and I hardly ever go over and hang out by the fake rock wall, but today Mimi wanted to go there. I was thinking that maybe she wanted to try climbing it, but mostly she just wanted to stay around where Marta and Olivia were playing with some of the other Fairy Girls. They call themselves Fairy Girls because their favorite thing to do in the whole world is to play princess fairy. Since we were standing there and Mimi was not talking, we ended up mostly listening to them play their game.
    It didn't sound very fun. There was a lot of arguing about super fairy powers. "Princess Petaluna can totally fly into the cave and get the magic stone!" said Olivia. "No she can't!" shouted Marta. "She lost her wings! Don't you remember? She has to go back and ask the Violet fairy to let her have some new ones! You always want to do what you want to do. It's not fair! If my fairy has to lose her wings, then yours does too!" Marta was really mad—she was shaking her arms, and both her hands were in fist shapes. Everyone was watching. We couldn't help it.

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    At first Olivia looked like she might yell back at Marta, but then instead she said, "Fine! Princess Petaluna will walk into the cave! Now are you happy?" Olivia walked under the slide and pretended to pick something up from the ground.
    We didn't get to see what was going to happen next because the bell rang and we had to go in. While we were running to line up, Marta ran over and said, "Do you want to play next time? It's really fun!"
NO way, thank you!
was what my brain screaming inside my head. But before my mouth could find a nicer way to say it Mimi said, "Okay, sure." And that is how she surprised me all over again.
    WHAT I WAS WONDERING ABOUT
    Mimi was not being her regular Mimi self. Fairy princess was not something she would normally want to play. I tried to ask her about it when we first sat down, but Miss Lois surprised us all by saying that today was going to be our first day of cursive writing. This was not something I was expecting, and for once it was something I wanted to learn, so I stopped not paying attention. All the girls in the class were excited—we could hardly wait to