His Name Was Walter chapter sampler

That caught Grace’s butterfly attention. She limped quickly around to Colin’s other side and craned her neck to look at the book for herself. ‘Oh, it’s just a kids’ story,’ she said in disappointment. ‘It’d still be fun to read it, though. We’re stuck here till the taxis come, and there’s nothing else to do.’ Her eyes started to sparkle as inspiration struck her. ‘Hey, Mrs Fiori, I know! We could read it out loud!’ She nodded vehemently as the teacher turned stiffly to look at her. ‘This is a history excursion, right? If someone reads the story, and everyone else listens, it’ll be like what people did in the olden days, before TV and the internet, right?’ Lucas, still sitting at the table, was heard to sigh deeply. This seemed to make up Mrs Fiori’s mind. ‘That’s a great idea, Grace,’ she said warmly. ‘Much better than passing the book around. We don’t want to damage it.’ ‘Can I go first?’ Grace begged, practically jumping up and down. ‘It was my idea!’ She sounded really childish, and her eagerness should have been annoying, Colin thought, but somehow it wasn’t. He was getting to know Grace Leslie a bit better now. Grace wasn’t really pushy and conceited, as he’d thought watching her laughing with her friends and ignoring everyone else. She was just very enthusiastic, and so full of energy that she mostly did and said the first thing that came into her head.

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