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    Beatrice More Moves In
    Beatrice More Moves In
    Beatrice More Moves In
    Ebook56 pages17 minutes

    Beatrice More Moves In

    By Alison Hughes and Helen Flook

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    Beatrice More is no average third-grader. She is a list-making, hyperorganized perfectionist whose laid-back parents and messy little sister consistently frustrate her high standards. And when a new house, a new neighborhood and new friends are thrown into the mix, Beatrice sends the family into a comic tailspin, all in the name of “professionalism.” Despite her most feverish organizational efforts, Beatrice ultimately discovers that some of the best experiences are the ones you can’t control.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateNov 3, 2015
    ISBN9781459807631
    Beatrice More Moves In
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    Alison Hughes

    Alison Hughes is an award-winning author of many books for children and young adults, including The Silence Slips In, winner of the R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature, and Hit the Ground Running, nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award. Alison is a university writing adviser who also volunteers with children and literacy groups and gives frequent workshops and presentations at schools, libraries, festivals and conferences across Canada. She lives in Edmonton with her family.

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      Beatrice is very particular about attaining a certain level of organization and controlled appearance. During a move to a new house, she rides her family members about unpacking immediately and putting things in their places, especially after she invites two new friends to visit. Will it be enough to impress them? Can Beatrice learn to loosen up?

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    Beatrice More Moves In - Alison Hughes

    Eight

    Chapter One

    It wasn’t that Beatrice More didn’t like boxes. She did.

    She especially liked boxes that were perfect squares. They stacked easily. They held things that would otherwise mess up the house. They were neat and tidy.

    But today Beatrice was sick of boxes. Very, very sick of boxes. Looking around her new house, all she could see were stacks of them. On the floor. On the kitchen counters. On the furniture.

    Boxes everywhere.

    Beatrice had tried to tell the movers where to put the boxes. But they just carried them in and dumped them anywhere.

    She tried to scrub off the smudgy, sticky handprints the movers left on the walls. But they kept making them faster than she could scrub them off.

    She said, "Somebody’s walking through the house with their shoes on!" very loudly several times before her mother finally shushed her.

    The moving guys were horrible listeners. They just smiled, carried in more boxes with their sticky hands and kept making a bigger and bigger mess.

    But the movers were gone now. The big, noisy moving truck was just pulling away from the driveway.

    It’s about time, grumbled Beatrice. She stood in the living room with her hands on her hips. As she looked around, her eyes narrowed.

    "What a dump," she said to herself, shaking her head slowly.

    Her mother came into the room. She looked around happily.

    Well, this is exciting! she said. A new house, a new neighborhood, a new city! Are you excited, Bee?

    "Beatrice." How many times had she told her family not to call her Bee? Nine thousand? Nineteen thousand? Ninety thousand? Bee was not a name at all. It was a letter. Or worse, an insect. An insect that buzzed annoyingly. An insect people ran away from, screaming.

    Bee certainly wasn’t the name of a future Olympic gymnastics gold-medal winner.

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