Kelsey Gallant
Harrisson
language
(Blobfish Books Nov. 29, 2016)
Ever wonder what things are like from the perspective of Allisen’s little brother? Harrisson Zepetto spills all in the fifth Allisen’s Notebooks Super Special. While Allisen is enjoying the neighborhood Olympics (Book 36, “The Summer Games”, in 8TH GRADE WITH MY AWESOME ADVENTURES, MY VARIOUS VISITORS, & ME), and meeting a mysterious new classmate (Book 37, “New Kid At School”, in 9TH GRADE WITH MY EXPANDING EXPERIENCES, MY ROLLERCOASTER RELATIONSHIPS, & ME), Harrisson’s emotions are swinging between pride in his athletic ability and utter terror at the impending prospect of getting his own room. When his excitement over starting fourth grade is dampened by a run-in with a bully, Harrisson needs to make some quick decisions about how he’s going to stand up for himself and the kids around him. Is he brave enough to face everything coming his way?
SAMPLE (463 words out of 6,904):
The beginning of the school day was really good, until we got to lunch time. Lunch time is when Sam and I saw a kid our age take a container of milk off of a tray belonging to a first-grader. The first grader and all of the first grader’s friends started yelling at him to give it back, but he just held it up above his head and danced around with it.
“That’s not okay,” said Sam. I agreed. We both went over and I said, “Hey, give him back his milk!”
The boy with the milk turned around and I recognized him. He was that mean bully from the playground, who had dumped his sister off the swing!
He recognized me too. “You!” he exclaimed. “You got me grounded for a week! You’re going to pay for that!”
A lunch monitor heard and came over. “What’s the problem?” she asked.
“He stole that kid’s milk and won’t give it back,” Sam said quickly. “And he’s yelling at my friend for no reason.”
The lunch monitor made the bully give the milk back. And then, right before Sam and I went back to our seats, the bully glared at us with the meanest face I’d ever seen and said, “Oh yeah, kid, you’re gonna pay.”
……..
Reasons I do not want my own room:
1.It will be scary. Sometimes I have nightmares and Miri comes up and cuddles with me because she hears me making scared noises in my sleep. Also, sometimes I hear a weird noise in the middle of the night, but I know it’s just Mirisen moving around on the bed below me. If we each have our own room, I’ll probably start to think the scary noises are monsters or burglars or something.
2.We won’t be able to have talk time anymore. Since my bedtime is only ½ hour before Miri’s, I usually stay awake until she comes in and then we talk until we get too tired or until someone tells us to go to sleep. Now I won’t have anyone to talk to.
3.It doesn’t even make sense for us each to have our own room. We have a BUNK BED! What are we going to do, chop it in half? We’ll probably just get rid of it and buy two regular beds. That would stink. I like my top bunk.
4.Pete’s old room, the room that’s supposed to be mine, is tiny. The room Mirisen and I share is big. It’s not fair that Mirisen gets to keep the big bedroom and I get a tiny one.
5.The gerbils are going to stay with Miri because they mostly belong to her, but they also partly belong to me so it’s not fair!
SAMPLE (463 words out of 6,904):
The beginning of the school day was really good, until we got to lunch time. Lunch time is when Sam and I saw a kid our age take a container of milk off of a tray belonging to a first-grader. The first grader and all of the first grader’s friends started yelling at him to give it back, but he just held it up above his head and danced around with it.
“That’s not okay,” said Sam. I agreed. We both went over and I said, “Hey, give him back his milk!”
The boy with the milk turned around and I recognized him. He was that mean bully from the playground, who had dumped his sister off the swing!
He recognized me too. “You!” he exclaimed. “You got me grounded for a week! You’re going to pay for that!”
A lunch monitor heard and came over. “What’s the problem?” she asked.
“He stole that kid’s milk and won’t give it back,” Sam said quickly. “And he’s yelling at my friend for no reason.”
The lunch monitor made the bully give the milk back. And then, right before Sam and I went back to our seats, the bully glared at us with the meanest face I’d ever seen and said, “Oh yeah, kid, you’re gonna pay.”
……..
Reasons I do not want my own room:
1.It will be scary. Sometimes I have nightmares and Miri comes up and cuddles with me because she hears me making scared noises in my sleep. Also, sometimes I hear a weird noise in the middle of the night, but I know it’s just Mirisen moving around on the bed below me. If we each have our own room, I’ll probably start to think the scary noises are monsters or burglars or something.
2.We won’t be able to have talk time anymore. Since my bedtime is only ½ hour before Miri’s, I usually stay awake until she comes in and then we talk until we get too tired or until someone tells us to go to sleep. Now I won’t have anyone to talk to.
3.It doesn’t even make sense for us each to have our own room. We have a BUNK BED! What are we going to do, chop it in half? We’ll probably just get rid of it and buy two regular beds. That would stink. I like my top bunk.
4.Pete’s old room, the room that’s supposed to be mine, is tiny. The room Mirisen and I share is big. It’s not fair that Mirisen gets to keep the big bedroom and I get a tiny one.
5.The gerbils are going to stay with Miri because they mostly belong to her, but they also partly belong to me so it’s not fair!
- Pages
- 19
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