The Adventures of Fern Book 1: Fern and the First Day Disaster
Chapter One My Sister Is Cool and Other Things I Deal With The first day of second grade starts just like any other school day except I am pretty excited about not being a first grader anymore Fern Fern That's my mom calling me I have to get up really early for school because I ride the school tortoise
A tortoise was voted safest animal for kindergarten first and second grade school transportation Many animals were suggested a fox a hare even an owl but they like to sleep all day Anyway the Fairy School Board and all the fairy parents voted for a tortoise So not cool It's not fair My sister gets to ride her new dragonfly to school She got it for Ostara the first true day of spring It even came in my sister's favorite color sky blue Her dragonfly is really fast It can fly forwards backwards and straight up and down It can even hover in one place So very cool Like my sister isn't cool enough She's always the best in her class at everything
AND she has big beautiful wings Her wings look like liquid turquoise and they shimmer like the feathers on a humming bird's chest She got the cool name too Shimmer My parents named her Shimmer because even her baby wings shimmered a beautiful blue when she was born
