Second Grade is off to a stinkin’ start.
There are classroom jobs. Scarlett does NOT think it is neat that she has the same name as a bean, and nobody is going to come to Gertie’s 7th birthday party. Even her own family thinks that Gertie is the weird kid this year. Are her old friends going to stop liking her now too?
Gertie’s Planning a party . . .
but not everyone in her new second grade class seems to want to be friends.
Scarlett thinks it’s weird that Gertie likes planting beans, and soon some of the kids in her second grade class are calling her “bean girl” and saying that she’s weird.
At first Mr. Winkler twinkles when he smiles. But as Gertie does her classroom jobs and tries to help Zoey, who is also struggling this year, he twinkles less and less.
Even her family thinks Gertie is the weird kid this year. Will anyone even come to Gertie’s garden-themed birthday party? What does it mean to be weird, anyway, and why does it have to be something bad?
