Emmy Lou

A rubber band snaps back across the aisle, and Emmy Lou’s eyes fill with tears—yet she smiles at the boy who tricked her. Why does he turn away as if he were the one who’d been hurt?

In a crowded public-school Primer Class, where seventy pupils know the letters and lessons Emmy Lou has missed, even a bell can leave her guessing. Late to school after whooping cough, she struggles to catch up while trying not to draw Miss Clara’s sharp attention. Then Billy Traver, a confident little boy who seems to know every rule of this puzzling classroom, begins to notice her. His gestures are hard to read—but a small kindness may make the strange Primer World feel less lonely. Can Emmy Lou find her place among the others?

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