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Book: The Name of the Star
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely.""Good morning," I replied."Morning. Listen to this. The second victim...
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope.The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal."Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
The day was ridiculous.In fact, the situation was so serious I thought they had to be joking - like maybe they staged a special first day to psych people out. I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths." It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
She called, "Aua!" in a penetrating voice that could cause a small bird to fall dead out of the sky.
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
Some nutter's gone and pulled a Jack the Ripper.
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
Charlotte, dressed in a very short-skirted policewoman's outfit, was leading a dancing brigade, jumping around at the front of the room, her long red hair flapping up and down like a matador's cape. She was head girl, and she would shows us how to party if she had to.I wasn't really sure why Charlotte had decided to come to the party as a stripper. I found myself at a loss for words as she complimented us on our costumes."You're a..." I tried to find the right thing to say. "Really...hot cop?""I'm ," she said. "From . This is her kissogram outfit.
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall."Stephen coughed a little."Just giving advice," Callum said.
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Maureen Johnson _ The Name of the Star
""I am getting so sick of looking at this kidney," I said."It's a farce," Jazza replied. "They act like they're shocked and horrified, and then they show it off twenty times a day.""Have you seen the singing kidney video?" I asked."Ugh. No.""It's really funny. You should watch it.
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