by Patrick Carman

“Summer Reading”

When I was ten I would not have positioned those two words so closely together on my own. I had a lot of other summer combos on my mind, like the following list of must-dos:

Summer: Swim, ride my skateboard, watch cartoons!
Summer: Jump my bike over my mom’s car!
Summer: Put ice cubes down my brother’s shirt, run for my life!
Summer: Sleep in until noon, eat pancakes for lunch, build a fort out of garbage, shave the dog!

Thank goodness for my mom, because she’s the one who made me put an exclamation point on the summer combo that probably made me a writer: Summer READING!

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