I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What d…

Laurie Halse Anderson
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I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: Hope your chicken patties never bleed? Or, maybe, May your Jell-O always wiggle? ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). Speak, Puffin
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