![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it's the new girl from the North - with her black socks and clodhopper sandals - that's got everyone out of sorts. There are times, though, when she wishes she could turn back the clock a year. Glory, as everyone knows her, is eager to turn twelve. "For Gloriana June Hemphill, life in Hanging Moss, Mississippi is filled with doodlebugs, iced tea, and fireworks on her birthday, the Fourth of July. Every single one of Jesslyn's pep squad friends started giggling and carrying on." ![]() Football Hero, showed up, the toenail studying ended. They gossiped about her friend Mary Louise's party and talked about some new boy in town that Jesslyn seemed real interested in The way those girls were studying their fancy-colored toenails, you would've thought they were paintings hanging in a museum. But when Jesslyn and her friends started whispering, and words like cute boy and football player and two-piece bathing suit drifted my way, I scooted my towel out from under that tree to get closer. "Even underneath our favorite shade tree, it was so hot you couldn't hardly breathe. Back then we sat on the same big towel while she painted by toenails pink. "Last summer, my sister taught me to hold my breath and swim the entire length of the pool underwater. "Be one to ask your grandma what it was like when she was twelve!" Author inscribed first edition of Glory Be by award-winning author Augusta Scattergood. ![]()
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