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    Just Call Me Kate
    Just Call Me Kate
    Just Call Me Kate
    Ebook74 pages42 minutes

    Just Call Me Kate

    By Dannah Gresh and Janet Mylin

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    Sixth-grader Kate Harding has bigger problems than trying to get her parents to stop call her "Katie." She has a major crush on her older brother's best friend: Zachary Donaldson. In a moment of insanity, she dares to write his name on the bathroom wall in eight-inch high pencil letters. It doesn't take Principal Butter long to match the handwriting to the doodling on her book covers. Kate is sent to detention where she meets up with three new friends who decide to become the Secret Keeper Girl Club. Her case of boy craziness is doused with some good advice from her new friends.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateOct 1, 2008
    ISBN9780802477941
    Just Call Me Kate
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    Dannah Gresh

    Dannah Gresh lives in the mountains of Pennsylvania with her husband, Bob, their children, Robby and Lexi, and their Labradoodle, Stormie. The Greshes founded Pure Freedom, a ministry that has provided biblical retreats and teaching resources for more than 500,000 people all over the world. Dannah has appeared as a guest on programs such asFamilyLife Today, The 700 Club, and Focus on the Family.

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      Read this with my 8 & 12 year old. We all liked it a lot! Great story with good discussion. Would highly recommend this book.❤️

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    Just Call Me Kate - Dannah Gresh

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    Kate Makes Her Mark

    Zachary Donaldson. Zachary Donaldson. His name is like poetry or something.

    As I lifted my pencil to the pink bathroom wall, I had a quick conversation with myself.

    Maybe I shouldn’t do this. But I need to do something to get his attention. The high school cheerleaders use our gym for practice sometimes when their gym is being used. So if one of those girls sees this, then Zachary’s definitely going to find out about it since he’s a football player, and that will be so perfect. And this isn’t really graffiti since I’m doing it in pencil. It can totally just be erased. No big deal, right?

    My hand was shaking as I began to write in huge letters Z-A-C-H-A-R-Y D-O-N-A-L-D-S-O-N. I finished by surrounding his name with a big heart.

    When the secretary’s voice came through the speaker dismissing students to their buses, I jumped.

    All right, Kate, I said to myself. Let’s hope this works!

    When I got home after school, my mom handed me a huge piece of homemade lemon meringue pie.

    Hi, Katie. How was school?

    "Mom, please try to call me Kate! I’m twelve years old now. Katie sounds like a little kid’s name!"

    She gave me a hug. Honey, you’ve always been our little Katie and that’s a pretty difficult thing to change.

    I sighed. I know. I know. Just please try. Okay, Mom?

    Okay, she said. So did anything interesting happen at school today?

    "No. Nope. Nothing different happened at all. I didn’t do anything different or anything. Just the same old boring day of school I always have. I’m gonna go eat this in my room. See you later, Mom!" I bolted up to my room before she asked me anything else. I’m a terrible liar and if she kept probing, I would have ended up spilling everything about the bathroom wall.

    It doesn’t usually take me very long to do my homework, but my brain was totally spinning. It was hard to think about anything except Zachary and how he might react when he finds out what I did. I finally closed my social studies book when I smelled burgers cooking on the grill through my open bedroom window.

    Meow! Meow! Sharkey, my cat, was curled up on my bed and wanted some attention. I stroked his long white fur and began telling him about what I did in school that morning. Sharkey’s almost always on my bed. He weighs twenty-five pounds and doesn’t move much. Just as I was explaining the part about drawing the heart around Zachary’s name, I heard the front door slam and loud boy voices making their way into the kitchen. It was my brother, Pete, and his best friend, whose name happens to be … Zachary Donaldson.

    Yes. I have a major crush on my seventeen-year-old brother’s best friend.

    After I gave Sharkey one more good scratch under his chin, I looked in the mirror and made sure my ponytails weren’t crooked. Then I cleaned the smudges off my glasses with the bottom of my shirt and headed downstairs.

    My brother and Zachary were going over that day’s football practice.

    Dude! You so totally rocked the house when you threw that pass! Zachary said.

    "I heard that, Z-Dog! It was sa-weet!" my brother agreed.

    They speak in kind of a different language. I pretty much get it, which is good because sometimes my parents need an interpreter.

    Hey, Pete. Hey, Zachary. I blushed as they both gave my ponytails a tug when I walked by them.

    Hey, little sis, said Pete.

    Whussup, Kate the Great? Zachary said. It’s so cool that he and Pete both call me Kate, not Katie or my full name, Kaitlin. When I become president of the United States, I plan to go by Kaitlin, but not now. I’m saving it.

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