Stevie

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Book: Stevie Read Free
Author: Bonnie Bryant
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going to turn my boring report into a THRILLING MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION! If Miss Fenton can totally relive the past month or two of my life—every exciting detail, every bit of action and fun—through my report, she can’t help loving it. For one thing, she’ll be impressed by my thoroughness (as you may recall, that’s another obsession of hers). But also, she might even understand what I tried to tell her the other day—namely, exactly why I’ve been so busy lately and how much I learned that I couldn’t possibly have learned in school even if I studied for a million years. And how only having such a creative and interesting life could prepare me for writing such a creative and interesting paper—I mean multimedia presentation.
    Okay, I’d better send this and get to work. If Mom and Dad catch me e-mailing you instead of writing my report, they’ll flip out. Not to mention what my brothers would do. They’ve been skulking around all afternoon, peeking in here every two seconds to see if I’m finished yet.
    Anyway, I know I can make this the most incredible assignment any Fenton Hall student has ever done. It willhave it all—action, adventure, excitement, emotions, bravery, and thrills galore.
    I just hope Miss Fenton is evolved enough to appreciate it!
     
Welcome to My Life!
A Multimedia Presentation by Stephanie Lake
    Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! You’re in for a thrilling, fascinating, and rare peek into the life of yours truly, Stevie Lake. Miss Fenton, you asked me to explain exactly why my schoolwork has slipped lately, and explain it I will. I’m not trying to make excuses for my less-than-wonderful grades. I only want to show you the real reasons for them. It isn’t that I’m not smart enough to do better or that I didn’t take the assignments seriously enough. It was simply that the whirlwind of action, mystery, intrigue, and drama that is Life consumed so much of my time that I wasn’t able to give my schoolwork the full attention it deserved.
    It all started with spring break. I was ready to spend the week reading
To Kill a Mockingbird
and studying fractions when fate intervened. Little did I know how much excitement, learning, even danger, was in store for me. But first …
    Personality Profile: Dinah Slattery
    (Miss Fenton, I know you know Dinah, because she used to go to Fenton Hall. But I thought it might be helpful to includethis, just in case you don’t remember her well enough, since she’s pretty important to this part of my story.)
    Dinah Slattery was born in Maryland, but her family moved to Willow Creek, Virginia, when she was seven. She attended Fenton Hall, and she took riding lessons at Willow Creek’s own Pine Hollow Stables from age eight. While at Pine Hollow, Dinah rode a horse named Barq, a spirited Arabian whose name means “lightning” in Arabic. Dinah was a fine student at Pine Hollow, though she often had trouble remembering to keep her heels down. But she always loved horses. I remember that Max Regnery, owner of Pine Hollow, would often comment on how “enthusiastic” Dinah always was in riding class. Dinah is also good at lots of other things, like drawing and telling jokes. She was a terrific friend and a wonderful student at Fenton Hall, and I know I’m not the only one who missed her when she moved to Vermont the year before last. But Dinah and I have kept in touch through letters and e-mails, so we’re still good friends. And she still has that enthusiastic spirit and sense of adventure that always made hanging out with her so much fun, as you will see.
    And now, on with our story … It was the week before spring break, and I couldn’t wait. I was looking forward to spending a lot of time at the stable, riding and hanging out with my friends. And of course, I was raring to start reading
To Kill a Mockingbird
, which I was sure must be a very fascinatingbook, especially since I’ve always been interested in birds and other animals.
    Then I

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