Clear-Eyed, I Won't Be the Ungrateful Ward or Steal the Darling's Part
READING AGE 4+
The first thing I saw when Aunt Dana opened the front door was a line of words hanging over my cousin's head: THE DARLING'S STORY BEGINS. My mother had been dead for three days, and I was standing on a wet porch with one suitcase, trying not to cry. By dinner, another sentence had appeared above me: THE UNGRATEFUL WARD WILL TAKE EVERYTHING. I didn't know what the words meant, but I knew they were wrong about one thing. I didn't want Willa's place, her mother, or the attention that followed her around Bellweather House. I only wanted to keep the promise my mother had left me. Years later, when Aunt Dana asked me to sign away the money meant for my future, I had to decide whether protecting that promise would make me the villain my family expected.
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The foundation's summer program opened again the next June.
The boathouse renovation had not begun. Instead, the board leased two classrooms from the town library and rented a small studio in Marrow Bay. The program took fewer students, but no one had to leave after the first week. Mr. Clay said the budget was the tightest he had ever s……
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