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    Sophie's First Dance
    Sophie's First Dance
    Sophie's First Dance
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    Sophie's First Dance

    By Nancy N. Rue

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    • Friendship

    • Self-Discovery

    • Adolescence

    • Peer Pressure

    • Identity

    • Coming of Age

    • Love Triangle

    • Fish Out of Water

    • Power of Friendship

    • Underdog Story

    • High School Drama

    • Friendship Struggles

    • Secret Identity

    • Friends to Lovers

    • Mentorship

    • Communication

    • Personal Growth

    • Dance

    • Romance

    • Trust

    About this ebook

    The Corn Flakes are in a tizzy about the end-of-school dance—they might actually have to deal with the Fruit Loops (boys), and that's causing them all kinds of friction. Will the Flakes break up, or can Sophie direct a happy ending?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateDec 15, 2009
    ISBN9780310568599
    Author

    Nancy N. Rue

    Nancy Rue has written over 100 books for girls, is the editor of the Faithgirlz Bible, and is a popular speaker and radio guest with her expertise in tween and teen issues. She and husband, Jim, have raised a daughter of their own and now live in Tennessee.

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      Sophie's First Dance - Nancy N. Rue

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      Other books in the growing Faithgirlz!™ library

      The Faithgirlz!™ Bible

      Faithgirlz!™ Backpack Bible

      My Faithgirlz!™ Journal

      The Sophie Series

      Sophie’s World (Book One)

      Sophie’s Secret (Book Two)

      Sophie Under Pressure (Book Three)

      Sophie Steps Up (Book Four)

      Sophie’s Stormy Summer (Book Six)

      Sophie’s Friendship Fiasco (Book Seven)

      Sophie and the New Girl (Book Eight)

      Sophie Flakes Out (Book Nine)

      Sophie Loves Jimmy (Book Ten)

      Sophie’s Drama (Book Eleven)

      Sophie Gets Real (Book Twelve)

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      ZONDERVAN

      Sophie’s First Dance

      Copyright ©2005, 2009 by Nancy Rue

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

      ePub Edition September 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-56859-9

      This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are products of author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Requests for information should be addressed to:

      Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Rue, Nancy N.

      Sophie’s first dance / Nancy Rue. – 1st ed.

              p. cm. — (Faithgirlz)

      Summary: As the sixth-grade dance approaches, Sophie turns to Dr. Peter and Jesus

      for help while trying to cope with her new feelings towards boys and with new tensions

      within her group of friends, the Corn Flakes.

      ISBN: 978-0-310-70760-8 (softcover)

      [1. Friendship — Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations — Fiction. 3. Imagination — Fiction. 4.

      Schools — Fiction. 5. Christian life — Fiction. 6. Virginia — Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series.

      PZ7.R88515Sk 2005

      [Fic] — dc22                                                                                                 2004029451

      All Scripture quotations unless otherwise noted are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV ® . Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Published in association with the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920. www.alivecommunucations.com

      Zonderkidz is a trademark of Zondervan.

      Interior art direction and design: Sarah Molegraaf

      Cover illustrator: Steve James

      Interior design and composition: Carlos Estrada and Sherri L. Hoffman

      So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,

      but on what is unseen.

      For what is seen is temporary,

      but what is unseen is eternal.

      — 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18

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      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

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      About the Publisher

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      Are you going to feed us something weird for your report?" Sophie LaCroix looked up from the library table into the disdainful face of B.J. Schneider. Disdainful was a word Sophie’s best friend, Fiona, had taught her, and this word definitely worked when B.J. or one of the other Corn Pops narrowed her eyes into slits, curled her lip, and acted as if Sophie were barely worth the breath it was taking to say something heinous to her.

      As a matter of fact, yes, that same Fiona said as she tucked a strand of dark hair behind her ear. It popped back out and draped over one gray eye. We thought we’d dish up some sautéed roaches on a bed of seaweed with a nice snake venom sauce.

      Sophie dragged a piece of her own hair under her nose like a mustache.

      It is so disgusting when you do that, said another Corn Pop, Anne-Stuart — with the usual juicy sniff up her nostrils.

      Not as disgusting as you and your sinus problems, Sophie thought. But she didn’t say it. All of the Corn Flakes had taken a vow not to be hateful to the Corn Pops ever, no matter how heinous THEY were to the Flakes.

      B.J. put her hands on her slightly pudgy hips. I KNOW you aren’t really going to serve something that nasty for your culture project, she said.

      Fiona pulled her bow of a mouth into a sly smile. Then why did you ask?

      B.J. and Anne-Stuart rolled their eyes with the precision of synchronized swimmers.

      What are y’all doing for your presentation? Sophie said, adjusting her glasses on her nose.

      We AND Julia and Willoughby — we’re doing a folk dance, Anne-Stuart said. And we’re going to make the whole class participate.

      You’re going to ‘make’ us? Fiona said.

      Sophie cleared her throat. Sometimes Fiona had a little trouble keeping the vow. It was hard with the Corn Pops acting like they ran Great Marsh Elementary, especially when school stretched into Saturdays at the town library.

      Then everybody can get used to dancing with each other, Anne-Stuart said. She sniffled. That way, SOME people won’t feel so lame at the graduation dance.

      What graduation dance? Sophie and Fiona said together. Sophie’s voice squeaked higher than Fiona’s, which brought a heavy-eyebrowed look from the librarian.

      What dance? Fiona said again.

      B.J. and Anne-Stuart both sat down at the table with Sophie and Fiona — as if they’d been invited — and B.J. shoved aside the Food from Around the World book they’d been looking at while Anne-Stuart leaned in her long, lean frame. Sophie was sure she could see moisture glistening on Anne-Stuart’s nose hairs.

      The dance the school is having at the end of the year for our sixth-grade graduation, she said.

      Duh, B.J. put in.

      Who decided that? Fiona said.

      Just the entire class. Back in September. B.J. gave her buttery-blonde bob a toss. You were probably off in one of those weird things y’all do — making up stories —

      No, Fiona said. I wasn’t even HERE yet in September. I moved here in October.

      I know YOU were here, Anne-Stuart said, pointing at Sophie.

      Sophie shrugged. She knew she had probably daydreamed her way through the entire voting process. That was back before she’d gotten her video camera, and before she and the Corn Flakes had started making films out of their daydreams instead of getting in trouble for having them in school and missing important things like voting for a stupid dance.

      What were the other choices? Fiona said.

      Who cares? B.J. said. We’re having a dance, and everybody’s going to wear, like, dress-up clothes, and —

      So if you didn’t even know about the dance, Anne-Stuart said, then you obviously don’t have your dates yet.

      Dates? Sophie said.

      You mean, as in boys? Fiona said.

      Anne-Stuart snorted and covered her mouth. B.J. waved at the librarian, whose eyebrows were now up in her hairline.

      You know, Anne-Stuart whispered. Boys. The ones with the cute legs.

      Cute LEGS? Sophie’s voice squeaked out of her own nostrils, and she was sure Anne-Stuart was going to drip right out of her chair. B.J. kept smiling at the librarian.

      People are actually coming to the dance with DATES? Fiona said.

      You meet your date at the dance, and he doesn’t dance with anybody else but you the whole night. Anne-Stuart put her hand on Fiona’s and wrinkled her forehead. You don’t HAVE to. I mean, if you can’t get a boy to be with you, then you can’t.

      I don’t WANT a boy to be with me, thank you very much, Fiona said. She snatched back her hand.

      Sophie was doing the mustache thing with her hair again. What boy in their class would she even want to get within three feet of? One of the Fruit Loops — Tod or Eddie or Colton? The thought made her feel like she had the stomach flu coming on. She shrank her already tiny form down into the chair.

      Tod Ravelli had a pointy face like a Dr. Seuss character and acted like he was all big, even though he was one of the shrimpiest boys in the class. Acting big included trying to make Sophie feel like a worm.

      Colton Messik wasn’t any better. He seemed to think he was cute the way he could make the Corn Pops squeal when he told a joke. Sophie and the rest of the Flakes thought the only thing funny about him was the way his ears stuck out.

      And Eddie Wornom was the worst. He acted like Mr. Football, but mostly he was what Sophie’s mom called fluffy around the tummy, and he was louder than the other two put together, especially when he was calling their friend Maggie Maggot or some

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