![]() Then Elsie is absent from school for several days, and Annie is accepted by Rosie and the others into their group. Annie tries to be polite, but there is something frightening about Elsie that makes her wish she would stay away. Annie's mother kindly invites her to stay for dinner, but Annie finds it impossible to like Elsie, overweight, with horribly crooked teeth, and seeming to hate everyone-the teacher, the other students, even her stepmother and father whom she claims beat her and lock her in her room. And after school, uninvited she follows Annie home. It is 1918, and shy, only child Annie has just started sixth grade in a new school in a new town and longs to be accepted by the circle of girls led by the bold, red-haired Rosie, but before their first recess, Elsie grabs her hand and telling her how mean the other girls are, forces her to play only with her. "What makes that noise?" She poked Edward's belly harder. Elsie picked up Edward Bear and squeezed his tummy to make him growl. ![]() What good times we'll have playing here." I tried to smile. Finally she sat down on my bed and gave a little bounce. She even opened the doors to the tall wardrobe and flipped through my skirts and dress and blouses. ![]() At the door to my room, Elsie stopped and stared."This is all yours? Oh, Annie, you are so lucky."Įlsie tried out the rocking chair Father had made for me. ![]()
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