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    Amalia: Diary Three
    Amalia: Diary Three
    Amalia: Diary Three
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    Amalia: Diary Three

    By Ann M. Martin

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    One moment—that’s all it takes to lose faith in everyone
    Amalia’s grades have been slipping. She’s been worried about Maggie, whose mom’s drinking has gotten out of control. At least Amalia and her new boyfriend, Brendan, are getting along great—on a movie date, she even kisses him for the first time. But then, while she is waiting outside the theater, several drunk girls assault her and call her racist names.
    Shaken, Amalia can’t help thinking that maybe Palo City isn’t the place she thought it was. She begins to shut down—and shut out Brendan and her friends. Planning her parents’ twenty-fifth anniversary party, she starts to wonder if she should even invite her extended Hispanic family to this town. Can her friends and boyfriend reassure her that she belongs in the same world as they do?
    This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author’s collection.    

    Amalia: Diary Three is the 14th book in the California Diaries, which also includes Maggie: Diary Three and Ducky: Diary Three.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMar 25, 2014
    ISBN9781453298213
    Amalia: Diary Three
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    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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      Amalia - Ann M. Martin

      Amalia: Diary Three

      California Diaries

      Ann M. Martin

      Contents

      Tuesday 5/25

      Wednesday 5/26

      Thursday 5/27

      Friday 5/28

      Saturday 5/29

      Monday 5/31

      Tuesday 6/1

      Wednesday 6/2

      Thursday 6/3

      Friday 6/4

      Saturday 6/5

      Sunday 6/6

      Monday 6/7

      Tuesday 6/8

      Wednesday 6/9

      Tuesday 6/10

      Sunday 6/13

      Monday 6/14

      Tuesday 6/15

      Wednesday 6/16

      Tuesday 6/17

      Friday 6/18

      Saturday 6/19

      Preview: Ducky: Diary Three

      A Personal History by Ann M. Martin

      Tuesday, 5/25

      I knew it, Nbook.

      Did I predict it or what?

      When Maggie tells me about meeting Tyler Kendall and informs me that she HATES him, do I believe her?

      No way.

      Fact: For Maggie, I hate Tyler means I hate Hollywood means I hate the fact that Dad is Hayden Blume the famous producer who works seven days a week and never comes home until midnight.

      Fact: Tyler’s OK. Fact: He likes her. Fact: He doesn’t give up so easily.

      So now she’s singing a different tune.

      It’s good to see Maggie so happy.

      And not just because of Tyler.

      She’s kicking the anorexia. I can tell.

      I predicted that too. And I was right.

      Wednesday, 5/26

      As for me? Thanks for asking, Nbook.

      Haven’t felt better.

      It’s a little scary.

      Sunny is an inspiration, Nbook.

      Her mom’s death hit her hard. But she’s pulling herself together. Somehow.

      I admire her.

      I admire all my friends.

      How did I get so lucky?

      Maggie’s here. Time to go.

      Thursday, 5/27

      Lunch

      Big news. Double date tomorrow night. Same as last time. Me and Brendan, Maggie and Tyler (I guess double date isn’t the right term. Tyler and Maggie are the Real Thing, boyfriend-girlfriend. Way ahead of us. Call it a date and a half. Whatever.)

      I just hope people don’t drool all over him again. (Tyler, that is. Not Brendan. He’s not the movie star—although he could be. But that’s another conversation.)

      Sorry about the chocolate shake stain. (Guess I shouldn’t open you during lunch.)

      Don’t you love parenthesises parentheses? (Yes.)

      4:47

      Stupid, stupid, stupid.

      Why do I bother telling Isabel about my personal life?

      Why do I let her see me happy?

      Here’s what happens.

      Must be tough to be perfect.

      7:35

      Maggie comes over just before dinner tonight. Last-minute thing. Says Zeke is at a friend’s, her dad’s at work (as usual), and her mom’s out.

      She’s not feeling too great. Says she feels tense all the time.

      As we’re talking, I hear Simon Big Tooth Lover Boy’s old car pull up. Then I hear him downstairs in the kitchen with Isabel.

      And she’s explaining her homework to him.

      Yes, that homework. Which she does early because she’s so responsible….

      What a phony.

      Friday, 5/28

      Study hall

      Flash: Brendan has a new shirt and shoes. (Yes, Nbook, the Boy Who Hates to Shop. The boy who claims his faded amber Grateful Dead T-shirt is actually white. Translation: It was white when his dad wore it in 1983.)

      Well, the clothes are a pleasant surprise. So is the haircut.

      When I notice the cuts on his cheek, though, I become suspicious. I ask who scratched him, and he says, I shaved.

      Shaved what? I ask.

      He does not see the humor.

      Guess I have to look at this from his point of view. I mean, if I were a guy soon to be on a double date and the other guy on that date was Tyler Kendall, wouldn’t I be nervous about my appearance?

      I tell him not to worry. He doesn’t have to be a hunk. I like him just the way he is.

      He says, I’m not a hunk?

      I pretend to think about it.

      He still doesn’t see the humor.

      Poor soul.

      Late late late late so-o-o-o late

      I’m back. I’m alive. I’m awake.

      How was my night?

      I might as well have been in outer space.

      That’s what it felt like. A trip to Pluto.

      NOTE TO SELF: Learn from experience. Bring rugged clothes to next experience with Maggie and Tyler. Maybe a sword and shield.

      Here’s us walking toward the restaurant:

      Here’s us when we get into the restaurant:

      The meal? The view?

      No meal. No view. This time

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