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    New Girl in Town
    New Girl in Town
    New Girl in Town
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    New Girl in Town

    By Julia DeVillers and Paige Pooler

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    Liberty Porter is your average eight-year-old girl. Except for the fact that her dad is the newly-elected President of the United States. She just moved into her new house--the White House. And she's about to start at her new school. It’s hard being the new girl at school and Liberty’s first few days don’t go as smoothly as she’d like. Having to bring a bodyguard to school? Not cool. Answering a history question about her new home wrong? Really not cool. Not knowing if kids want to be her friend just because she’s the First Daughter. Totally not cool! But if anyone can turn “not cool” into something “cool” it’s Liberty the “coolest” first daughter ever! Join Liberty as she finds true friends, and navigates her way through the corridors of her new school and the White House.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateJul 6, 2010
    ISBN9781442406445
    New Girl in Town
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    Julia DeVillers

    Julia DeVillers is the author of How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestseller, which was adapted as a Disney Channel Original Movie. She is also the author of the Liberty Porter, First Daughter series and the coauthor of the Trading Faces series, written with her twin sister, Jennifer Roy.

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      New Girl in Town - Julia DeVillers

      IF YOUR FATHER HAS BEEN PRESIDENT OF THE United States for a whole week, there are a few things you might want to know:

      1. You shouldn’t run through the first floor of the White House in pajamas. You might run into a press conference full of adults who will stare at you.

      2. You should ask your parents before you decide that it’s your mission to welcome kids to the White House and invite a whole tour group to play in your bedroom.

      3. You don’t automatically get a pony.

      4. You do get a Secret Service agent who will let you talk to his friends over his walkie-talkie.

      5. You don’t want to eat too many of the White House chef’s Porter Butter cookies. Especially the night before your first day of school.

      Liberty Porter had only learned this last one this morning. She had sneaked an extra cookie after dinner last night. Okay, three. And now she was lying in bed with a sickish stomach. She was slightly nauseous and also slightly nervous. Because today was Liberty Porter’s first day at her new school!

      She had woken up way before her alarm clock was set to ring. It was so early that it was dark outside, but she couldn’t go back to sleep. She thought about getting up and going out into the house. But she didn’t want to wake her parents up. The president of the United States had to get a good night’s sleep.

      That’s what her mom had told her the first morning, after Liberty woke up before her parents and went to the White House movie theater. She hadn’t meant to turn the volume up that loud.

      And what her mom had said the second morning, after Liberty had woken up before her parents and decided to play upstairs. She had planned to play the drums in the music room softly. But . . . well . . . they were drums.

      So now she just lay quietly in her bed, thinking about the first day of school.

      Liberty Porter was not the first kid who lived in the White House to go to school, of course. And some First Kids even went to school right inside the White House. President Lincoln’s and President Hayes’s children were homeschooled right down the hall from Liberty’s bedroom. President Kennedy had made a first-grade classroom for his daughter and ten students upstairs on the third floor.

      Liberty would go to a fourth-grade classroom at a nearby school. Everyone else had started at that school in the fall. Liberty would be the only new kid. And the only First Kid. Everyone knew she was starting school. It was big news. It was such big news it was even on the news.

      First Daughter Liberty Porter heads off for her first day of school tomorrow! the announcer had said on the television news yesterday.

      Suddenly Liberty felt really, really nervous. She picked up her new beanie rottweiler, Alice.

      I’ve never been to a new school before, she told Alice.

      Liberty did not know what this new school would be like at all!

      Liberty had gone to the same school her whole entire life. She knew everybody. Everybody knew her. She had known that Perfect Paige would be perfect. She had known that Max Mellon would be annoying.

      Liberty thought about her last day at her school. Most people in her class had said they’d miss her. They even made a card for her that said We’ll Miss You, Liberty!

      Liberty had felt sad when she’d gotten the card. She even started to cry a little bit. She had sniffled and then blew her nose. Unfortunately she blew her nose a little loud and Max Mellon heard her.

      Ha! Max had laughed. Liberty snorted!

      The rest of the day Max had called her by a new nickname:

      Pig-gerty Porter, First Snorter.

      Liberty had a very cheerful thought about her new school: Max Mellon would not be there.

      Then Liberty heard something outside in the hallway. Footsteps! Franklin, she whispered. Did you hear that?

      Franklin was sleeping in his dog bed in the corner. His ears perked up and he listened.

      Who was walking down the hall? Liberty had an idea! Some people had said they heard footsteps in the middle of the night at the White House . . . and they thought it was Abraham Lincoln’s ghost.

      Seriously! People thought they heard or saw Lincoln’s ghost. And not just any people, but presidents. Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Hoover all thought they heard the ghost knock on their bedroom doors.

      Liberty had thought she wanted to meet Lincoln’s ghost. But now she wasn’t so sure.

      And then there was a knock on Liberty’s door! Knock! Knock!

      And then the door opened. Creeeaaaak!

      Eeps! Liberty squeaked. She dived under the covers. Her heart was beating like crazy.

      Liberty? a voice said. Was it the ghost?

      Her bedroom light clicked on. No. It was not the ghost of President Lincoln. It was just her father, President Porter!

      Whhhhhew! Liberty’s heart pounded a little bit slower.

      Good morning, Liberty Bell! her dad said. He paused. Liberty? Are you in there?

      Liberty crawled out from under the covers. She saw her father in the doorway. He was wearing his suit and tie already. Franklin got up and trotted over for his morning scratches.

      Hi, Daddy, she said.

      Happy First Day of School! he said. "I know why you woke up so early. You couldn’t wait for my Traditional First Day of School Porter Pancakes.

      You are one lucky girl, her father said. "It’s your second time to get my traditional first day of school pancakes in one year."

      Yup, Liberty agreed. Lucky me.

      The best pancakes ever, her father said. Nobody makes pancakes as good as mine.

      Erm. Liberty didn’t quite answer that one. Her father was going to be a great leader of the most powerful country in the world. But his pancakes tasted like soap.

      Just because I’m president doesn’t mean I would give up making my famous pancakes, her dad was saying. In fact, now we can call them Porter Presidential Pancakes!

      Liberty was hoping they could call the chef downstairs for breakfast. But the pancake tradition made her father so happy.

      Maybe the chefs could sneak her something later. Liberty still couldn’t believe she lived in a house that had chefs. They cooked in a huge kitchen downstairs. And not just a huge kitchen, but a pastry shop where they made cookies, cupcakes, brownies. . . . And not only a pastry shop, but a chocolate shop.

      Yes, a whole room in her house where chefs made chocolate! Liberty zoned out for a minute thinking about the chocolate shop. Mmmmm. Chocolate shop.

      Liberty jumped out of bed

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