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This is an extract

adapted from a book about an American teenage boy.

There was a

red post out in front of Marvin Redpost's house. The rest of the fence was

white. Marvin tapped the post for luck as he walked through the gate on his way

to school.

He wore a

pair of blue jeans with a hole over each knee. It was "hole day" at

school. Every day had been special this week. Monday, he had to wear socks that

didn't match. Tuesday, everyone wore T-shirts that came from a vacation.

Wednesday, yesterday, had been hat day. And today, everyone had to wear clothes

with holes. His two best friends, Nick and Stuart, were waiting for him at the

corner.

"Do

you think Mrs. North will wear clothes with holes?" asked Stuart.

"Sure,

why not?" asked Marvin.

"No

way!" said Nick. "I'll bet you a million dollars!"

Nick had

also said there was "no way!" Mrs. North would wear mis-matched

socks. He had also said there was "no way!" she would let the kids

wear hats in class.

Nick was wearing a T-shirt that had a large hole under his right armpit. It had

been torn in a fight.

"She

probably doesn't even own any clothes with holes," Nick said. "How

could a teacher get holes in her clothes?"

"Moths,"

said Marvin. "She might have a wool sweater. Moths eat wool."

Stuart was

wearing a T-shirt that also had a large hole under the right armpit. It had

been torn in a fight.

It was the

same fight.

Nick and

Stuart had fought each other. But now they were friends.

"You

want to come over after school today?" Nick asked.

"Okay,"

said Stuart.

"I

can't," said Marvin. "My mom is taking me to the shoe store. I'm

going to my cousin's party on Saturday."

When they

got to school, everybody they saw had holes in their clothes. Travis wore a

shirt that was more hole than it was shirt. Clarence had a hole in his sneaker

and his sock, so his big toe stuck all the way through.

The bell rang, and everybody lined up and went to class.

Mrs. North

was waiting in the classroom.

Casey

Happleton sat at the desk next to Marvin. She was absent today.

Marvin was

disappointed to see her desk empty. She was a funny girl, and he knew she would

have liked "hole day."

"I

must say," said Mrs. North, "you are all so well dressed today. I've

never seen a better-looking group of third graders."

Everybody

laughed.

"We

should dress this way all the time," said Judy Jasper. "That way, nobody

would feel bad if their parents were too poor to buy them new clothes."

"That's

a good idea," said Mrs. North.

Marvin

thought so, too.

"And

the holes keep you cool on a hot day," Stuart pointed out.

"You're

right," said Mrs. North.

Marvin

agreed. Holes made perfect sense. He wondered why nobody had thought of it

before.

Mrs. North

was gone for a lot longer than a minute. When she returned, she had a very

strange expression on her face. She looked lost. She opened her mouth, but

didn't say anything.

"Are

you all right?" asked Kenny.

Mrs. North

looked at Kenny, but still didn't say anything.

They matched the hat as it was the hat day.

They were torn as it was the day for torn clothes.

They matched a vocation T-shirt.

They were ordinary as it was Thursday.