The Price of an A

By Moriyah Marshall

Amber Zeller is new in Main Summers Elementary School, and get this, her dad is the principal! In order to go on a tropical trip her family has planned, she needs to get all As in all her classes. Her overall grade slips one day in class, and she has to find a way to bring her grade back up. However, to do this, she must complete a project by spending a whole day with the weirdest person in fifth grade, Brianna Adams. She survives her mom's not-so-good cooking and her sister's constant bugging, but will she survive her Saturday with Brianna so she can go on the trip? Will she get a brand-new friend or foe? Will she feel the sand between her toes and the sun against her face this summer? It all depends on what she's willing to do to get that A.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9781662459290

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The Price of an A

Moriyah Marshall

Copyright © 2022 Moriyah Marshall

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2022

ISBN 978-1-6624-5928-3 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-6624-5929-0 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

I Was Doing Good until I Wasn’t

A Long Day

Decisions

Not So Bad Brianna

The Best Day of the Week Is Always Saturday

Paragraphs, Punctuation, and Persistence

F Stands for Friends

When Life Gives You Problems, Be Glad You Have Friends

I Was Doing Good until I Wasn’t

Hi, my name is Amber Zeller. I have gotten all As all three quarters this year in fifth grade. I just moved and now attend the newest school in town, Main Summers Elementary School. I have a little sister whose name is Ella. She is probably the most mischievous little girl out there. She might wear frilly pink dresses, but that doesn’t mean that she’s innocent. She uses her curly auburn hair and rainbow-colored nails as weapons. But some days—just some days—she is the best little sister in the whole wide world. So far, today is not one of those days.

Sissy! Ella shouts as she comes down the stairs and into the kitchen.

Inside voices, Ella, my mom says.

Sorry, Mommy, I just had a question for sissy, Ella apologizes with the slightest amount of remorse in her voice.

You’d think I’d have the tiniest amount of curiosity, but I already know what she is going to ask me. No, I am not a fortune-teller or from the future or anything. It’s just that every day since Mom and Dad promised us a Disney cruise if I could get all As this year, Ella comes to me and asks me the same exact question.

Sissy, do you have all As?

Yes, Ella, now stop asking me. It’s not going to change! I respond.

That’s good, report card day is in two weeks! My mom adds.

Ella stood at the pantry, twisting her curly auburn hair on her pointer finger, untwisting it, then twisting it again.

Stop doing that! It’s distracting! I complain as I finish up my homework from last night.

Well, you put your hair in a ponytail and take it out and put it in and take it out and put it in and— my sister starts to argue. Even though that’s true, I can’t help it. That’s just how I think.

That’s enough, girls! Now be good and get along. I have to go to work. Amber, make sure that Ella gets on the bus with you this morning and afternoon because you guys don’t have dance class today since it’s Friday, my mom tells me—more like reminds; if she didn’t tell me that, Ella might have had to pitch a tent at school until I realized that she didn’t come home.

Ella finally chooses her cereal as Mom closes the door behind herself. That clever fox—she waits until Mom leaves to reach for the super sugary cereal with marshmallows in it. Mom says to only eat that cereal on the weekend mostly because Ella gets