You and Your Peeps

By Donna G. Kelley

       YOU AND YOUR PEEPS is a collection of stories written for parents to read aloud to their children or to listen as their children read the stories aloud to the   

        parents. Family relationships and social issues represented in these stories can be discussed as a family to establish moral principles.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Donna G. Kelley
• Release date: Feb 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393251262

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DEDICATION

I dedicate You and Your Peeps to my dear friend Candace Dorothy Koble for giving me the inspiration. Most likely, I would never have thought of applying this idea which has even multiplied into spinoffs. Now I put fingers to the keyboard for my initial launch.

INTRODUCTION

You and Your Peeps is a collection of stories written for parents to read aloud to their children or to listen as their children read the stories aloud to the parents. Family relationships and social issues represented in these stories can be discussed as a family to establish moral principles. 

Chapter One

MOVIN’ AND GROOVIN’

If only I didn’t have to move! Glimmer thought. I’ll never like the new house as much as I like this old one. The new neighborhood will be crawling with strangers. Everything will be so different.

When school opens, I’ll get lost in the halls and look like a dunce fumbling my way around. It is no wonder that the new girl had such a pitiful look on her face last year. This year, I’ll be the new girl in the sixth grade.

Would I still be able to go to the same church? I really dig my Sunday School teacher. On top of that, I just started taking piano lessons from my neighbor. Give up this and give up that. This new move seems to be taking more than it is giving.

This house has known me since the day that I was born. We go back a long way. It heard my yells and giggles while I listened to its creaks and mysterious noises. It stored framed pictures of me in almost every room, just as I stored framed memories from every room.

While I touched its rough shingles and smooth porch columns, the house touched me deeply in my heart. It knows my secrets just like I know its secret places. I guess it smelled mud, sawdust, and tar on my shoes from all of the scrapes I got