by Noel Streatfeild

I have a new friend—she's nine years old and her name is Sydney Armstrong.  She loves to read (of course—how could I ever have a friend who didn't love to read?).  She told me (and her teacher) that she sometimes hid the books she was reading inside her math book!  I used to do the same thing when I was nine (and ten and eleven and so on).  We discovered that we loved many of the same books, and we're planning to get together to discuss a book that we're both reading: The...