CHAPTER 1NOT ARTS AND CRAFTS
Seven-year-old Amilie was inconsolable. She tearfully held up a smooshed piece of paper with one big, puffy, blue pom-pom attached. Her second pom-pom had fallen off and before she could pick it up, another student had stepped on it. To an outsider, the object in Amilie's hand might appear to be just a tangle of paper with a fuzzy ball dangling from it. But to Amilie, this was “Cottie,” shaped by her own hands and imagination. And now Cottie was missing an eye.
Daphne Chase, her 2nd-grade teacher, asked Amilie how she might fix Cottie with the materials available, and Amilie gave it serious thought before deciding that two smaller pom-poms were the solution. “Now she's even better than before,” she said.
This ...
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