Pennybaker School Is Revolting, стр. 51
“Thomas!” Erma yelled from the bottom of the stairs. “Chip is here for you!”
“Nah,” I said to Grandma Jo. “It wasn’t just mine.” I stood and kissed Grandma Jo on the cheek, rushed to my room to grab something off my bed, and then jogged to the stairs. Chip met me at the top of them.
Before I could chicken out on being all squishy, I held out the socks I had gotten from my room. They were purple-and-yellow-striped, so bright I had to squint. Mom had chuckled when I asked her to buy them. But Mom knew Chip, so she wasn’t really surprised. She even did that Mom thing where she put her fingertips up against her chest and said she was so proud of the man I was becoming.
“What are these?” Chip asked, reluctantly taking them from me.
“Best friend socks,” I said. I pulled up one pant leg. “I have a matching pair. They double as vocabulary socks. Do you want to know what the friendship word of the day is?”
Chip looked from the socks to me. “Thomas, I …”
I continued before he could start crying on me or something, because that would be even more uncomfortable than what Mom had done. “Consonance. The word is ‘consonance.’ ”
He beamed, squeezing the socks in his hands like he was afraid if he let up, they would disappear. “Thank you, Thomas.”
“C-O-N-S-O-N-A-N-C-E,” I continued. “You want me to use it in a sentence?”
He held up one finger. “Technically,” he said, “the vocabulary word of the day is …” He trailed off, thinking it over. “You know what? Sure, consonance it is. Please continue.”
We sat on the top step, and Chip put on his socks while I told him all about it.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Writing a book takes a lot of help and support, and I’m so grateful to the people who help and support me. For that reason, Chip and I are pulling on our acknowledgment socks and going on a Thank You Adventure.
For Cori Deyoe, agent and friend, Chip has brought you a shiny pair of encouragement socks, because your encouragement is one of the best things about my writing day.
For Brett Wright, Mary Kate Castellani, Allison Moore, Ben Holmes, Sandy Smith, Oona Patrick, and Melissa Kavonic, Chip has brought you matching polishing socks for helping chart Thomas and Chip’s adventure course and making sure they always stayed on it. In fact, Chip brought an entire package of hard work socks—a pair for everyone at Bloomsbury who worked so hard to get Pennybaker’s antics onto pretty pages and into readers’ hands.
For Marta Kissi, Chip is giving you rainbow-striped, sparkly, fluffy illustration socks, double layered with amazing talent socks. Thomas, Chip, and friends really come to life thanks to you.
My husband, Scott, here are your story hero socks, because you are the reason I write stories in the first place.
And to my kids … pick up your dirty socks. They’re revolting! (See what I did there?)
Love you all!
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Brown, Jennifer, author.
Title: Pennybaker School is revolting / by Jennifer Brown.
Description: New York : Bloomsbury, 2018.
Summary: Strange things are happening at Pennybaker School for the Uniquely Gifted, and sixth-grader Thomas Fallgrout must stage a revolution to set them right.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017049962
ISBN 978-1-68119-176-8 (hardcover) • ISBN 978-1-68119-177-5 (e-book)
Subjects: | CYAC: Gifted children—Fiction. | Boarding schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories.
Classification: LCC PZ7.B814224 Pc 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017049962
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