Funny Kid Belly Flop chapter sampler

‘Max, just put your hands together out in front, bend your knees, put your chin on your chest and dive,’ Chaz says, as though the problem here is that I don’t know how to dive. ‘Are there any other things I can do at the swimming carnival that don’t involve …?’ ‘Swimming?’ Abby finishes my sentence. ‘Getting wet,’ I say. ‘I mean, do you know how long it took me this morning to get my hair looking like this?’ ‘Zero minutes and zero seconds?’ she interrupts again. ‘Shh!’

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