CHAPTER 3
Never up to Me
Leaning against the wall in the hallway, | stay quiet.
Some little kids walk by, reminding me that I'm in sixth
fgrade—the highest grade in this school. But I feel like a
baby.
“Ally? Do you have anything to say?" Mrs, Silver asks
T’m afraid to open my mouth because sometimes
things just come out that get me in more trouble.
Finally, she suggests we go to her office
I sit in the principals office staring out the window,
silent. I wonder what it would be like to be able to relax
at school and not have to worry every second of every
Twish I had my Sketchbook of Impossible Things. Itthe only thing that makes me feel like I'm nat a waste
of space. like to watch the pictures in my head become
real in my book. My recent favorite is a snowman that
‘works in a furnace factory: And then I decide that the
crazies, strangest, most unbelievable thing I could ever