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Shoes that Speak
A Middle Grade Novel in Verse
25,000 words
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For a Day or a Lifetime: Anne wants two things more than anything: to go to the Olympics in basketball and for her Dad to be the always-happy person that everyone else thinks he is. When she wins a pair of basketball shoes and Dad is over the moon, she begins to think she can have both—as long as she keeps winning.
FIRST BASKET
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I was five first time I made a basket.
I practiced for days:
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Crouch down,
jump up,
hurl the ball to the sky.
Bam!
Crouch down,
jump up,
hurl the ball to the sky.
Thunk!
Crouch down,
jump up,
hurl the ball to the sky.
Clunk…
bap…
swish.
As soon as I made it, I wanted it again:
the swish,
the make,
the win.
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