Across
- 4. Jess pumped his arms harder and bent his head for the _______ fence
- 6. It must be ________ to sit in front when you find yourself dressed funny on the first day of school
- 7. In her _______, Mrs. Myers was one of the foodaholics who would hide bits of candy bars in odd places
- 8. “I got plenty of ______ needs doing around here this morning,” his mother announced as they were finishing the grits and red gravy
- 10. it made him ________ that anyone as dumb as Brenda would think she could make fun of Leslie
- 11. When you were the only boy smashed between four sisters, and the older two had _______ you ever since you stopped letting them dress you up
- 13. She was going on seven, and she _______ him, which was OK sometimes
- 15. “Shhh, ” Leslie said, stroking May Belle’s head, but May Belle didn’t want comfort, she wanted _______
Down
- 1. while the smaller boys tried to include themselves without being __________
- 2. Otherwise they turn into ________ and dictators
- 3. Christmas was almost a month away, but at Jess’s house the girls were already _________ with it
- 5. a magical land that is made up of your imagination
- 9. He managed to _______ the whole boring week of school for that one half hour on Friday afternoons
- 12. He thought later how _______ it was that here was probably the biggest thing in his life, and he had shrugged it off as nothing
- 14. Lord, she was _______