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“You never can do anything except on weekends,” Simone complained. “How can people be friends only on weekends?” Stiffening, Franny said, “If you don’t want to be friends, Simone, then all right.” Threatened, as she so often was, with tears, Franny, as she usually did, fought them back. “See if I care,” she said airily. Franny does care - a lot. But what can she do? Her mother works long hours at the laundromat, and her father can’t seem to hold down a regular job. And who is going to clean the house and look after 4-year-old Marshall? It all falls on Franny’s shoulders.

This fresh, funny story is guaranteed to bring lots of laughs from children and adults. To save himself from becoming the main course at a barbecue, a pig disguises himself as a boy. It looks as if his daring trick will work until he meets young Emily, who is not fooled for a moment.