Those are good points Finding a really great idea for the magic trick is tougher than I thought You know what would be a great trick Making you disappear said Connor Ha-ha But you know what would be an even greater trick he asked Making you be quiet Mom and Dad and Halmoni will never believe it if we do that trick I can be quiet No you can’t You talk a lot I took a breath and decided to be patient After all I was his big sister We need a good trick And remember I’m the magician You are the assistant Only for the first time we do the trick he said But when we do it again I get to be the magician 6
Neither of us will get to be a magician if we can’t come up with a trick Connor closed his eyes I still like the idea of making something disappear even if it can’t be Max or an annoying sister I’m not annoying and I’m your big sister Twin sister I’m older Argh By ten minutes Connor said I’m still older I patted his hand But when we grow up I’ll let you be taller So we both win He thought about that for a minute Okay that’s a good deal I jumped off the couch and went to the bookshelf We’d just been to the library and borrowed a stack of books 7
Some of them were about detectives Some were about astronauts Some were about magic The night before I’d read a super-great book about a P I who wore a cool hat and squinted when he talked Here I gave Connor two books on magic tricks and I took two books Let’s look through these for ideas I have d-y-s-l-e-x-i-a Dyslexia It means that when I read numbers and letters jump and swim on the page I have a special piece of see-though paper to help me It’s red my favorite color And when I read I put it over the page Changing the color of the paper can make the words behave We sat and flipped through the pages Oh I like this one I turned the book around so Connor could see the pages We can make a coin go through the coffee table 8
