Grade 5 · Story
What Elena Heard
I wasn't trying to listen. On Friday I was in the school library, hunting for a book about volcanoes, when I heard my best friend Noor's voice on the other side of the shelf. She was talking to Tasha, a girl from our class who sits beside her in math.
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