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    Vacation Queen
    Vacation Queen
    Vacation Queen
    Ebook76 pages34 minutes

    Vacation Queen

    By Marci Peschke and Tuesday Mourning

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    Kylie Jean goes on a family road trip on her summer vacation. After many stops along the way, Kylie finally has her moment when she visits the Statue of Liberty.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJul 1, 2016
    ISBN9781515800613
    Vacation Queen
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    Marci Peschke

    Marci Bales Peschke was born in Indiana, grew up in Florida, and now lives in Texas, where she is a librarian. She has lived in three haunted houses, but now lives with her husband, two children, and a feisty black and white cat named Phoebe. She loves reading and watching movies.

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      Vacation Queen - Marci Peschke

      pictureAll About Me, Kylie Jean

      My name is Kylie Jean Carter. I live in a big, sunny, yellow house on Peachtree Lane in Jacksonville, Texas, with Momma, Daddy, and my two brothers, T.J. and Ugly Brother.

      T.J. is my older brother, and Ugly Brother is… well… he’s really a dog. Don’t you go telling him he is a dog. Okay? I mean it. He thinks he is a real true person.

      He is a black-and-white bulldog. His front looks like his back, all smashed in. His face is all droopy like he’s sad, but he’s not.

      His two front teeth stick out, and his tongue hangs down. (Now you know why his name is Ugly Brother.)

      Everyone I love to the moon and back lives in Jacksonville. Nanny, Pa, Granny, Pappy, my aunts, my uncles, and my cousins all live here. I’m extra lucky, because I can see all of them any time I want to!

      My momma says I’m pretty. She says I have eyes as blue as the summer sky and a smile as sweet as an angel. (Momma says pretty is as pretty does. That means being nice to the old folks, taking care of little animals, and respecting my momma and daddy.)

      But I’m pretty on the outside and on the inside. My hair is long, brown, and curly.

      I wear it in a ponytail sometimes, but my absolute most favorite is when Momma pulls it back in a princess style on special days.

      picture

      I just gave you a little hint about my big dream. Ever since I was a bitty baby I have wanted to be an honest-to-goodness beauty queen. I even know the wave. It’s side to side, nice and slow, with a dazzling smile. I practice all the time, because everybody knows beauty queens need to have a perfect wave.

      I’m Kylie Jean, and I’m going to be a beauty queen. Just you wait and see!

      Chapter One: Bored

      I wake up and stretch. Ugly Brother stretches out his doggie arms and legs, too. Looking out the window, I see the sun is already glowing like a fireball in the sky.

      Yup, it’s going to be another hot Texas summer day. Last summer we had one hundred days over one hundred degrees! This year we may hit that again. I bet it will be hot enough today to fry an egg on our sidewalk!

      Before school got out, I thought that summer vacation would never come. It finally came, and now I’m bored. Last week I got to hang out with Ugly Brother and my best cousin, Lucy, every day, all day long. We went to the pool, canned tomatoes at Nanny and Pa’s Lickskillet Farm, and even made jewelry with Granny. Now it’s Monday, and I

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