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    Happy Birthday, Mallory!
    Happy Birthday, Mallory!
    Happy Birthday, Mallory!
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    Happy Birthday, Mallory!

    By Laurie Friedman and Tamara Schmitz

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    Mallory McDonald is turning nine! And she is ready to celebrate getting the past year over—one troubled with moving, starting a new school, making new friends, and sibling rivalry. Mallory wants her ninth birthday to be extra special. So instead of celebrating just one day, she plans an entire “birth month” celebration. But soon, things aren’t going according to plan, and Mallory fears that being nine may be just as difficult as being eight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2013
    ISBN9781467733694
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    Laurie Friedman

    Laurie Friedman is the author of the popular Mallory series, The Mostly Miserable Life of April Sinclair series, and many award-winning picture books. She lives in Florida.

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      Happy Birthday, Mallory! - Laurie Friedman

      Kit

      Some people might say eight is great, but for me, eight was a really, really, really hard year. Just about everything in my life changed.

      First, I had to move to a new town and leave behind my best friend, Mary Ann. Then I had to go to a new school. And to top things off, my big brother, Max, got a dog even though we already had a cat … my cat, Cheeseburger. But now I’m turning nine, and I know nine will be just fine because I’m planning to make nine the best year ever.

      And to kick it off, I’m planning the best-ever celebration.

      It all started tonight when Grandma called.

      I can’t believe that in one month, my little Honey Bee will be nine years old. That’s so exciting … I bet you can hardly wait!

      And when Grandma said the part about me being hardly able to wait, I started thinking … maybe I shouldn’t wait. Maybe I should start celebrating right away.

      The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea. So I made a decision: Starting tomorrow, I’m going to start celebrating.

      For my ninth birthday, I’m not going to just celebrate my birth day. I’m going to celebrate my birth month!

      And that’s when I realized, I’d better get busy. A birth month celebration takes a lot of planning. But I have a feeling if I plan it all out, it will be the world’s best, best, best birth month ever.

      Because if you plan it all out, nothing can go wrong.

      Right?

      Mom, Dad, wake up! I bounce on my parents’ bed until they start to move. Do you know what day it is today?

      Mom opens her eyes, but she looks confused. Monday?

      It’s Monday, I say. But do you know why this Monday is different than all other Mondays?

      Dad rolls over and looks at the clock on his nightstand. Mallory, on all other Mondays, we wake up at seven o’clock. It’s 6:15 in the morning! What is so important about this Monday that you needed to wake us up so early?

      I plop down on the bed between Mom and Dad. Today is the first day of my birth month celebration!

      I wait for my parents to say, Wow, the first day of your birth month celebration. That is so, so, so exciting! But that’s not what they say.

      What’s a birth month celebration? mumbles Dad.

      "It’s when you celebrate the month you were born, not just the day," I tell him.

      Dad rolls his pillow into a ball and puts his head back on it. "Mallory, a day celebration is plenty."

      But I want my ninth year to be the best ever, so I’m planning to start it off with the best-ever celebration. I pull a sheet of paper out of one of my slippers and unfold it. And I think I’ve come up with a perfect plan.

      Mom sits up in bed and turns on a light. Dad sits up too. They look at each other, and then they look at me. What did you have in mind? Dad asks me.

      I snuggle up between my parents and tell them exactly what I have in mind.

      When I finish reading my list, my parents look at each other like they just came out of a parent-teacher conference, and there’s something they need to talk to me about.

      Mallory, says Mom. I know you’re excited about turning nine. But we need to go through your list and talk about what’s reasonable and what’s unreasonable.

      I already went through my list, I tell Mom. I crossed off the unreasonable stuff, like putting a hot fudge fountain in the backyard.

      Mom reaches for my list. I think we better do this together.

      Mom looks at my list. "Mallory, you can’t eat all the junk food you want. You can’t watch all the TV you’d like. And unless you have a fever, you know you have to go to school every day."

      I start to explain that all of these things are important because they are part of my birth month celebration, but Mom doesn’t let me. She looks at my list again, and says my name slowly like she’s talking to a two-year-old and not an almost nine-year-old.

      MAL-LOR-Y! We just painted your room. We’re not going to repaint it. And your brother does not have to do all your chores for a month. How would you feel if you had to do all of Max’s chores for a month?

      I wouldn’t want to do that. I don’t really want Max to have to

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