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2 humor 18 My name is Lulu Harrison, daughter of the super cool actor Lincoln Harrison and famous film director Fiona. I’m little sister to fashionable, fancy fifteen-year-old Alexis. My address is 15000 Stone Canyon Road, Bel Air, California (that area between Beverly Hills and Brentwood). You’d think my life was pampering and parties. Well, it could be, but the problem is, I’m the Not Fitter Inner. I love to garden. The rest of my family loves to groom. I love to bake. They love to buy. I love science experiments. They love strenuous exercise (like yoga or Pilates). Are you starting to understand? Here’s what it means to be a Not Fitter Inner. Everyone who ever meets my dad or reads about him thinks he’s dreamy. They’re not wrong. He’s got thick, wavy brown hair and forest-green eyes. BUT I have this secret idea he doesn’t even know where my room is in the house. I’m one gazillion percent sure he doesn’t know the name of my best friend, my favorite food, or what grade I’m in. My sister, Alexis, is flaw free, or at least that’s what she’s always telling me. She has thick, dark hair that’s always blown out. She has an L.A.-style toothpick body. People constantly mistake her for a young actress. She loves that beyond belief. Here’s how I look: plain. I have frizzy, shapeless brown hair that I never have time to cut or brush. I’ve got pale skin with P R E M I E R E I S S U E : F A L L 2 0 1 3 Ages 9-12 Lulu in LA LA Land by Elisabeth Wolf Sourcebooks, Inc. | www.sourcebooks.com www.luluinlalaland.com COOL READS FOR COOL KIDS overlapping freckles. I’m average height and just a little teeny-tiny bit extra chunky. I sure don’t want to look like those walking skeletons you see around L.A. My best feature on the outside is my deep-green eyes. My other best parts that you can’t see, like my brain and my feelings, my family doesn’t care about. Out of sight, out of mind. From Lulu in LA LA Land by Elisabeth Wolf, Sourcebooks, Inc. 2013. http://www.sourcebooks.com. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
3 multi-cultural Shida ran back to her own cooking hut. Mama was stirring their ugali to a thick consistency. Shida handed her the two tomatoes and, after hesitating for a moment, offered her the onion as well. “Good, Shida. That was fast.” Mama began peeling the onion with their dull kitchen knife. Shida handed Mama their other pot and threw the peeling scraps over her shoulder into the yard before propping herself up in the doorway. “Mama, I think this move to Njia Panda could be a good thing for us.” Mama grunted and raised her eyebrows. “I could go to school and learn from the nurse. She could teach me how to become an even better healer and then when I’m older —” “Shida, stop!” Mama put down the knife. Her eyes were suddenly focused. “You’re a girl now, a child. Yes, you have healing skills. So did I when I was a girl. But how many medicine women do you know in our village?” Shida stared at the flames. “But, Mama —” “No, Shida. You don’t know any. Only men. And now try to imagine one of these medicine women you dream about coming from what people call a dishonorable family, a family without a father. Do you see? That’s you, Shida. Is that the sort of luck people are looking for when they go to a healer?” “No,” Shida said. She shifted back and forth between her feet and pulled at a hole in the waist of her dress. “You have to understand this, Shida. Ages 10-14 A Girl Called Problem by Katie Quirk William B. Eerdman’s Publishing | www.eerdmans.com She who hates, hates herself. —South African proverb COOL READS FOR COOL KIDS Now, you’re a girl. But tomorrow, you’ll be a woman. People have room in their lives for girls with crazy mothers and dead fathers. They feel sorry for these girls. How many fathers will choose to have their sons marry a young woman without a father? A young woman whose family has an unlucky history? Your best hope is to get married now while people still think of you as a girl.” From A Girl Called Problem by Katie Quirk, William B. Eerdman’s Publishing, 2013. www.eerdmans. com. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. 19
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