When it came time for Claude Herdman to pass to the second grade he didn’t know his ABC’s or his numbers or his colors or his shapes or his “Three Bears” or how to get along with anybody. But Miss Brandel passed him anyway.
For one thing, she knew she’d have Ollie Herdman the next year. That was the thing about the Herdmans—there was always another one coming along, and no teacher was crazy enough to let herself in for two of them at once.
I was always in the same grade with Imogene Herdman, and what I did was stay out of her way. It wasn’t easy to stay out of her way. You couldn’t do it if you were very pretty or very ugly, or very smart or very dumb, or had anything unusual about you, like red hair or double-jointed thumbs.
But if you were sort of a medium kid like me, and kept your mouth shut when the teacher said, “Who can name all fifty states?” you had a pretty good chance to stay clear of Imogene.
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My Brother Louis Measures Worms
And Other Louis Stories
Copyright © 1988 by Barbara Robinson
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Robinson, Barbara
My brother Louis measures worms
“A Charlotte Zolotow book.”
ISBN 0-06-076672-7 (pbk.)
EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780062077158
[1. Family life—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R5628My 1988
87-45302
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