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    Ducky: Diary Three
    Ducky: Diary Three
    Ducky: Diary Three
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    Ducky: Diary Three

    By Ann M. Martin

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    Ducky and Sunny get along so well—does that mean they should be dating?
    Ducky and Sunny have a pretty special friendship. And working together at Sunny’s dad’s bookstore has only brought them closer. But when Ducky notices Sunny laughing a little too hard at his jokes and giving him moony eyes, he doesn’t know what to do. His guy friends aren’t available and Dawn, Maggie, and Amalia are too close to Sunny to understand.
    Ducky knows most guys would love to be with Sunny, but he can’t pretend to be into her when he’s not. Right now, the last thing Sunny can handle is more pain. How can he let her know without hurting their friendship?
    This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author’s collection.

    Ducky: Diary Three is the 15th book in the California Diaries, which also includes Maggie: Diary Three and Amalia: Diary Three.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMar 25, 2014
    ISBN9781453298220
    Ducky: Diary Three
    Author

    Ann M. Martin

    Ann M. Martin grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. After attending Smith College, where she studied education and psychology, she became a teacher at a small elementary school in Connecticut. Martin also worked as an editor of children’s books before she began writing full time. Martin is best known for the Baby-Sitters Club series, which has sold over one hundred seventy million copies. Her novel A Corner of the Universe won a Newbery Honor in 2003. In 1990, she cofounded the Lisa Libraries, which donates new children’s books to organizations in underserved areas. Martin lives in upstate New York with her three cats.

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    Book preview

    Ducky - Ann M. Martin

    Ducky: Diary Three

    California Diaries

    Ann M. Martin

    The author gratefully acknowledges

    Nola Thacker

    for her help in

    preparing this manuscript.

    Contents

    Aug. 15

    Aug. 16

    Aug. 20

    Aug. 21

    Aug. 22

    Aug. 23

    Aug. 24

    Aug. 25

    Aug. 26

    Aug. 27

    Aug. 28

    Aug. 29

    Sept. 4

    A Personal History by Ann M. Martin

    Aug. 15

    Work. Work. Work.

    Or,

    The True Story Of Ducky

    You’re complaining about work.

    Work is good. Work is not being at home counting the half-full (half-empty) cereal boxes that line the counters of our kitchen.

    Cereal boxes are a big decorating item in your house since Ted has suddenly decided to eat most of his meals at the college caf. This is so he doesn’t have to wash dishes.

    Lately, Ted seems to feel overextended when he has to rinse out a cereal bowl and load it into the dishwasher.

    You believe, almost, that if you had a dog, Ted would put all plates and utensils down for the dog to lick clean. Then…

    No. You malign him, Ducky.

    He wouldn’t really put them back on the shelf.

    He’d just stack them in the sink.

    But enough about Ted. Enough about life on the take-out menu.

    Let’s talk about…

    You.

    Me.

    Work.

    Work is BEING IN CHARGE.

    Okay. So you’re not in charge of the bookstore exactly. But Mr. W is out at the moment and only you and Sunny are here.

    Process of elimination: Boss gone.

    Person (or persons) in charge: Sunny (boss’s daughter). And/or Ducky.

    No, let’s call you Christopher for the mo. Sounds more bosslike.

    Christopher. (Boss’s daughter’s best friend.)

    Are you? Are you, Christopher Ducky McCrae, the bf of Sunny Winslow?

    Too much. You don’t need the pressure of figuring it out. Why define something that doesn’t need defining?

    Why overanalyze everything?

    Okay. The boss’s daughter is your very good, close personal friend. You feel comfortable with that.

    Right now Sunny is organizing the impulse purchases around the cash register—all the little, cute, not-too-high-ticket items that you can point out to customers as you ring up their purchases. Or if they are truly good customers, they pick ’em up themselves and say, This is sooo cute, and toss ’em in with the other books.

    You do not think little tiny books are cute.

    You have (TRUE CONFESSIONS) never used a bookmark in your life. Seasonally themed pens—the kind with Dracula painted on them or whatever—are NOT A FASHION STATEMENT, in your opinion.

    But hey, whatever.

    Sunny looks up, sees you looking, and smiles.

    She knows how you feel about the impulse items.

    She herself likes them.

    A strong woman with a mind of her own.

    Incoming customer.

    D: May I help you?

    IC: No. Thanks.

    D: Well, let me know if I can.

    IC: Right.

    Sunny passes you with a big box. She puts it down next to the front display window and opens it. She peers in.

    You peer in.

    You get a shock.

    It is full of Barbie dolls.

    Sunny, you say, we have to talk.

    Ignoring you, she says, there’s a bucket of sand by the back door. Would you get that for me?

    You obey.

    When you return, Sunny is emptying all the best-sellers from the window.

    You return them to the shelves, refraining from asking questions. By now, you have cleverly deduced that Sunny has plans for these dolls. Plans involving the window display.

    You spend a pleasant half hour or so pulling books that involve beaches, oceans, and summer activities from the shelves. These include a horror book set at the beach, Moby-Dick, several guides to shells, a book about beach vacations, and Treasure Island (personal childhood favorite). You’ve decided to insist it be included, even if Sunny objects.

    But she doesn’t. Instead, she suggests that you get some petty cash and buy a bottle of suntan lotion and some not-too-uncool-but-cheap sunglasses to go with the display.

    You return to find Sunny arranging the books on a couple of beach towels that she has also brought along.

    You remind her that she’ll be in trouble if she gets sand in the books’ bindings.

    Or at least if they were library books she would be.

    She makes a face. You make a face back.

    You know from humiliating childhood experience leading to lifelong fear of the species Librarianimus Horribilus.

    Also lions, tigers, bears.

    Cro Mags?

    You will not think about those jerks, those hall jockeys, those losers who somehow manage to make your life miserable.

    School is out. For the summer.

    You have no fear.

    No fear. Ducky fears no Cro Mag. Nor Neanderthal either. (neither?)

    Movie advertisement:

    Ducky is John Wayne. And the Duke fears NO MAN.

    But did John the Duke Wayne fear women? Did he…

    Another customer.

    MOMENTS LATER

    ANOTHER CUSTOMER WHO POLITELY declines your offer of assistance.

    You try not to feel REJECTED.

    Okay, just kidding. Customer rejection happens not to be a problem for…

    What is Sunny making those faces for? Why is she pointing at that customer? Yeah, the baggy clothes are a bit fashion-over but…

    A John Wayne Moment

    YOU LOOK UP. SEE the guy slide a very large

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