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    Blackheads
    Blackheads
    Blackheads
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    Blackheads

    By Ashley Bradley

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    Francine was not excited about starting seventh grade. It was just going to be like sixth grade, except this year they were starting Algebra, and in History they were finally going to address the Louisiana Purchase. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAshley Bradley
    Release dateApr 17, 2017
    ISBN9781386005698
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      Blackheads - Ashley Bradley

      Blackheads

      Ashley Bradley

      For her first day back to school, Francine's mother made her a bowl of room temperature creamed corn, upon which she sprinkled raisins atop. Francine's mother was a vegetarian, so that meant everyone in the house was one, too. Before becoming a vegetarian, Francine's mother did protein shakes, so everyone had to do those, until they all got food poisoning and had to sell their home to pay the medical bills, and Susie's funeral costs. Before the protein shakes, it was heroin. Francine always tried to put things in perspective when she got annoyed by creamed corn and raisin breakfast meals: It could've been heroin.

      Francine was not excited about starting seventh grade. It was just going to be like sixth grade, except this year they were starting Algebra, and in History they were finally going to address the Louisiana Purchase.

      Francine had been excited about starting sixth grade, when she was in fifth grade, because she had only ever been in elementary school, with those kids and the cubby holes and nap times, and tiny apple juice cartons, and spoiled milk at lunch, and teachers who smelled like funeral homes, and kids with perpetual snot crust under their nose, that one kid named Tommy, and the class pet, a barely alive turtle, named Rog.

      Francine in fifth grade couldn't wait to get out of elementary school, to graduate to something more mature and respectable, middle school. She never felt like she belonged in elementary with all the common kids. Lucky for her, she was chosen as one of the Gifted students, and sometimes, with ten other Chosen Kids, got to leave class for awkward piano lessons, or to volunteer at the old folks home. Sometimes the gifted kids got to have ice cream parties in the library while the librarian, Miss James, read aloud from the Encyclopædia Britannica. But those moments were few and far between; for the majority of her time she had to mix with the other kids. Kids she called kids when she referred to herself as a pre-woman. No, elementary was not for the likes of Francine, who knew the definition of clandestine in second grade. Elementary school was beneath her, she needed something more challenging.

      Middle school turned out to definitely not be that. Sixth grade was a wash. She was happy she could finally be separated into Honors classes

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