Pepper Pretorious Saves the Day

By Dayle Dermatis and Dayle A. Dermatis

Pepper Pretorious is the smartest child in the whole third grade—human or alien—on the domed colony of Danu.

 

She also plans to win the first-ever school talent contest.

 

Her teacher tells her parents she could steal the show. (Why would she want to steal anything? That makes no sense.)

 

And no group of adolescent, lavender-grey, wafting-tentacled aliens is gonna stand in her way.

 

"Pepper Pretorious Saves the Day" originally appeared in Snot-Nosed Aliens (WMG Publishing, 2019).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Soul's Road Press
• Release date: Mar 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393686484

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Pepper Pretorious Saves the Day

Pepper Pretorious Saves the Day

Dayle A. Dermatis

Soul’s Road Press

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Pepper Pretorious is the smartest child in the whole third grade—human or alien—on the domed colony of Danu.

She also plans to win the first-ever school talent contest.

Her teacher tells her parents she could steal the show. (Why would she want to steal anything? That makes no sense.)

And no group of adolescent, lavender-grey, wafting-tentacled aliens is gonna stand in her way.

Pepper Pretorious Saves the Day originally appeared in Snot-Nosed Aliens (WMG Publishing, 2019).

Pepper Pretorious Saves the Day

Penelope Pretorious, known as Pepper to everyone (and Peepee, only once, by a classmate who would never do that again), danced quietly in the back of her third-grade classroom. She was one of the Active children, the kind formerly punished for not being able to sit still in their seats before childhood educators figured out that some children simply needed to be able to move around. The deal was, an Active child could go to the back of the room where the padded mats were and work off their excess energy as they needed to, so long as they kept quiet, learned the lessons the teacher was teaching, and didn’t disturb other children. For Pepper, that was dancing.

Her father was South African and her mother Chinese, and her complexion was similar to the reddish clay earth outside the dome and her hair was shiny-black and straight. She was of an average build for an eight-year-old, and perhaps slightly more graceful when she was paying attention, which wasn’t always.

Pepper was actually the