We went over each other's houses almost every weekend, playing with Barbie and Ken dolls for hours at a time (Erica pretended that they were her and Tyler Applebaum). We talked all the time in class, which led Miss Moore to move Erica yet again.īut that didn't stop us! The two of us were inseparable, and we did practically everything together. Erica's talking was contagious and pretty soon I had "caught" it. Then, Erica uttered the first words she had ever said to me: "Hi, my name is Erica. As soon as she sat Erica down across from me, Erica stared at me with her beautiful baby-blue eyes and I stared at her back, chewing on one of my brown braids. Miss Moore had probably figured that since I was extremely shy and hardly ever said a word in class that Erica would have no one to talk to and that would be the end of Erica's constant chatting. Guess where the chatterbox got moved to? That's right, my table. Finally after a few weeks Miss Moore got fed up with Erica's talking and just like every other teacher we have both had from first grade through now, she moved Erica's seat. Of course, Erica, being the excessive talker that she was and still is today, chatted non-stop to poor Tyler every chance she got, whether it was during Miss Moore's addition lesson or during D.E.A.R. Erica had had a big first-grade crush on Tyler Applebaum, who sat across from Erica at their table. The first time I ever met Erica Stevens was in Miss Moore's first-grade class at Thomas Grant Elementary.
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New York City-not a place for the faint-hearted or the sweetest of souls.Īfter all these years, I never expected to be back in the city-least of all, to be back in this house. **CONTAINS NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN BONUS MATERIAL** The eagerly anticipated second novel of the Siren trilogy, Undercurrent is a seductive paranormal romance that will leave you breathless. Note Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Now, Vanessa must face her past and accept that she is just like her enemies - every bit as alluring, every bit as dangerous. OTHER BOOKS BY TRICIA RAYBURN YOUNG ADULT TITLES The Siren Series Siren Undercurrent MIDDLE GRADE TITLES Merits of Mischief: The Bad Apple (writing as T.R. 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Nothing has been normal since Vanessa Sands learned that her sister was murdered by siren femme fatales of the watery depths and that everything she believed about her family was a lie. Tricia Rayburn is the author of the well-reviewed middle-grade Maggie Bean series. The sirens are back, but Vanessa may be the biggest threat of all. Listen closely, and you’ll find that the singer should have shared her cotton candy with her friends, and absolutely will … tomorrow. See, you might think that Carmen is relating her views on love, but no. The other ones: the words, at least, as they are now known to my 6-year-old daughter and the hundreds of children who took grown-ups like me to the Kennedy Center here recently for the premiere of “The Ice Cream Truck Is Broken! & Other Emotional Arias,” an experiment, including a short new work by the composer Carlos Simon, in what it might mean to draw a very young and impossibly demanding audience into a life in opera. 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