Ginger Iversham
No. 33 in the Cobblestone Circle Series
But across the street from the schoolyard there is one little girl who is not happy at all. “It’s just not fair! ” sulks Ginger Iversham as she kicks the fence in her front yard. “Why does everyone get to go to school except me! ” And it’s not just the playground fun that Ginger envies ~ she thinks a lot about what goes on in the classrooms too. Every night she sits attentively at the kitchen table as her sister Katie does her homework. She especially likes everything to do with numbers ~ the counting and adding and she even writes them on her own paper just the way Katie does. But it’s so hard to wait until Katie will come home to show Ginger what they learned today.
Ginger clutches her new duckling as she stomps her foot again. “It’s just not fair! ” she mutters ~ this time referring to the fact that her play date with Brianna Larkins was canceled because Brianna has got the sniffles. Ginger had so wanted Brianna to help her pick out a name for her duckling that Auntie Ruth had sent all the way from Brambury. “Guess you’ll just have to stay Duckie for a while longer, ” she says to her new toy.
From the kitchen door Ginger’s mother half chuckles as she watches all this foot-stomping and not-fair-muttering and decides it is time to rescue her little Ginger from all this anguish. She finds the bucket of chalk in the garage and presents it to Ginger ~ suggesting that perhaps she can draw a picture of Duckie on the front sidewalk. Ginger considers this for a moment or two and then giggles as she begins to write giant numbers on the driveway ~ numbers so large that they can even be seen from the classroom windows across the street!
~ SOLD ~
March 2008
