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the door.
Johnathan took the lon-
Johnathan hated being call John. He perferred more formal terms, and always got revenge by stealing from their houses. You’d think they’d learn that after losing tons of przed possessions, they should stop annoying him, but they would continue to bug him, though it was never to the point where his feelings were hurt.
ogy in Social Studies, and it got him revved up with way too much excess energy. Maybe later today he’d leave home to, say, steal?
gest route to school as possible. South eld middle school was the fanciest in the whole state of Texas, and he hated it. The kids there were de nitely rich, be- cause they were too snobby for words. Picture this: kids dressed in teen clothing, talking about their family’s latest attempts at getting any richer. Whenever Johnathan would appear, they would say something stupid, like “Hey, John. Betcha can’t steal from MY home!”
School was more fun than usual today, learning about the Pythagorem Theroy in math, learning sea life ( his favorite topic) in science, and Egyptol-
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Icestorm by Megan Carnahan