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Article: Weirdest of all.(Short Story)
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- Highlights for Children
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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"If anyone sees, I'll have to leave town." Gordon looked both ways down the school hallway. He hoped his body would hide Zee, who was slipping her special home-baked pumpkin seeds into his backpack. Gordon was planning to invent a new recipe.
"Secrets have a way of getting out," Zee said, bright clothes and red hair flashing like neon.
"The Weirdos," Lion jeered as he and his buddies swaggered up. "Born weird. Dress weird. Act weird."
"Weird, how?" Zee asked. "As in magical? As in wizards and elves? Do you mean mysteriously strange, fantastic, or just plain eerie?"
Zee's good with words, Gordon thought. She uses words to dance around ...