title: Treasures, A Reading/Language Arts Program, Grade 1, Book 1 Student Edition (ELEMENTARY READING TREASURES)
author: McGraw-Hill Education
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zlib_text: The Treasure Map of Boys (A Ruby Oliver  
  
  
  Novel) E. Lockhart For Sarah and Lauren, who made this book so much better
  than it was
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  1.
  
  
    
  
  
  I Am Not Always a Good Friend
  
  
    
  
  
  Ruby,
  
  
    
  
  
  In laboratories dim
  
  
    
  
  
  We bend to Fleischman's whim
  
  
    
  
  
  And suffer twice a week
  
  
    
  
  
  Horrors terrible to speak.
  
  
    
  
  
  Will you deign
  
  
    
  
  
  To ease my pain?
  
  
    
  
  
  Or will I slowly
  
  
    
  
  
  Go insane?
  
  
    
  
  
  Say you'll be my partner true In Chemistry, it's me and you.
  
  
    
  
  
  \--written on yellow legal paper in Noel's cramped, somewhat illegible scrawl;
  found in my mail cubby, folded eight thousand times and with a bit of coffee
  spilled on one corner.
  
  
    
  
  
  8
  
  
    
  
  
  the first day back from winter break, junior year, I walked into Chem to find
  a head of red cabbage on every lab table. Also a juicer. Tate Prep is the kind
  of school where the chemistry teacher has a budget to buy fourteen juicers. I
  go there on scholarship. Mr. Fleischman started the class yelling, "Happy New
  Year,