after-school Superstars Vera Vance ComiCs star Claudia mills pictures by Grace Zong Margaret Ferguson Books Holiday House New York
For Jeannie Mobley with thanks for the joy of writing in your sunroom together
one BAM BOOM KAPOW Vera Vance let go of her bowling ball hop ing this time to hear ten pins exploding into the air But her ball rolled so slowly and crook edly down the lane again that only one pin on the far left wobbled for a second before top pling over Hooray Nixie Ness shouted pumping her fi st Vera didn’t have a lot of friends yet She and her mother had moved to Longwood for her mother’s new job right before school be gan two months ago But she and Nixie had just fi nished being in an after-school cooking camp together and now Nixie had invited her to come bowling on Saturday afternoon Vera stared at Nixie Hooray 1
