Still Just Grace
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A fun new boy has just moved in next door to Grace’s best friend, Mimi. When Grace has to go away on a family trip during school, she is terrified that when she comes back Mimi will be best friends with Max instead! After her trip, not only does it seem her fear has come true, but Mimi is even friends with the disgusting Sammy. Now Just Grace has to team up with two other Graces in her third-grade class for a school project, including the Big Meanie.
Charise Mericle Harper
Charise Mericle Harper is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including the Just Grace series and the Next Best Junior Chef series. Charise lives in Oregon. Visit Charise at chariseharper.com and on Twitter at @ChariseHarper.
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Still Just Grace - Charise Mericle Harper
Copyright © 2007 by Charise Mericle Harper
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The illustrations are pen and ink drawings digitally colored in Photoshop.
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Still just Grace written and illustrated by Charise Mericle Harper.
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Summary: When a struggling student teacher assigns a group project, third-grader Just Grace gets so involved in working with Grace W. and Grace F. that she fails to understand why she and her best friend, Mimi, are drifting apart.
[1. Best friends—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Teachers—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H231323Sti 2007
[Fic]—dc22
2007012746
ISBN: 978-0-618-64643-2 hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-618-93482-9 paperback
eISBN 978-0-547-53124-3
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For Ivy,
My empathy girl
ME
My real name is Grace, and if that was your real name then you would think that if someone wanted your attention they would shout Grace!
but that is not what happens for me. I am not a usual person, but you can’t tell that by just looking at me, because most of my unusualness is pretty much on the inside. My outside wrapping looks like any other girl’s, except I don’t wear very much pink because that is definitely not one of my favorite colors.
THINGS THAT ARE UNUSUAL
(SOME GOOD, SOME BAD, SOME NOT SURE)
Having four girls named Grace in the same class, and not letting any of them use the name Grace. Instead, calling them Grace W., Gracie, Grace F. (secretly named the Big Meanie by me, because that is what she is), and Just Grace. The Just Grace name probably being the most dumb name in the whole world ever, which is especially bad and sad because that’s the one that is mine.
Thinking that someone is 100 percent disgusting and not likable, and then having something happen that changes your mind a little bit so that the gross disgusting feeling is almost all gone, even when you have to stand right next to him and say, Hi, Sammy.
Having a little superpower that almost no one knows about. Empathy power is the power to feel someone else’s sadness, and then to try to make that sadness go away. It’s not an easy power to have. I know, because I have it.
It still tasted good, though!
Girls who draw comics, because mostly that’s a boy thing, though it just doesn’t make any sense why it would be that way.
Butterfly Lady can make you feel better just by wrapping you in her big beautiful wings.
Living next door to your most perfect friend in the whole world. And having that friend be someone as great as Mimi.
Having a cool French flight attendant named Augustine Dupre living right in your very own basement. But living in a great apartment that your dad made, not in the scary-spider part next to the furnace.
Hopefully they will never meet!
MYSTERY BOY
(SOUNDS BETTER THAN IT IS)
Mimi and I were watching the new people move into the house that the workers built right next door to her, where before there were just a bunch a weeds, broken glass, and prickle bushes.
Actually, we were spying on them from her upstairs window, so they couldn’t see us and we wouldn’t have to talk to them. Especially the mystery new boy who was going to be in our class. Mimi’s mom was all excited about having new neighbors. She told Mimi she had to be nice to the new boy and let him play with us because he was going to be nervous and lonely. This did not sound like the kind of boy we wanted to play with. In my head I made a list of what could happen if you played with nervous, lonely creatures. It was not good.
We saw the mom, the dad, and eight or nine moving people, but there was no boy. The moving people were like big ants and hard to count because they were all wearing the same blue shirt and not keeping still. Maybe they left him at their old house,
said Mimi. Because he is terrible and they wanted to get rid of him,
I said. Because he is very gassy and has horrible breath,
added Mimi. And he burps and picks his nose!
I finished. I’m glad he’s not coming!
I said. Me too!
said Mimi, and this made me secretly happy, because I did not want the new boy neighbor to be someone Mimi was going to like more than she liked me, her old girl neighbor.
MAGIC BOY
(STILL SOUNDS BETTER THAN IT IS)
Poof! Like magic, the next time we looked out the window we saw the boy. He was smiling and