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    Bad Luck Bridesmaid: The Complicated Life of Claudia Cristina Cortez
    Bad Luck Bridesmaid: The Complicated Life of Claudia Cristina Cortez
    Bad Luck Bridesmaid: The Complicated Life of Claudia Cristina Cortez
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    Bad Luck Bridesmaid: The Complicated Life of Claudia Cristina Cortez

    By Brann Garvey and Diana G Gallagher

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    Claudia has been asked to be a bridesmaid in her cousin Laura's wedding. Claudia's excited, so she finds lots of information about weddings online. Soon she knows all about wedding traditions and luck. But when she arrives at Laura's house, everything starts going wrong. Is Claudia the bad luck charm?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781496504364
    Bad Luck Bridesmaid: The Complicated Life of Claudia Cristina Cortez

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      Bad Luck Bridesmaid - Brann Garvey

      wedding.

      CHAPTER 1

      GUESTS, GIFTS, AND GOWNS

      Invited, Excited

      I love a lot of things about my life.

      Some of the things I love:

      Dressing up in weird costumes on Halloween

      My three best friends: Monica, Becca, and Adam

      Chocolate cream pie

      My Silver Jet rollerblades

      This weekend is Laura’s wedding. And I’m going to be in it!

      Claudia Cristina Cortez = junior bridesmaid

      * * *

      Laura’s family only lives an hour away, but the drive to their house seemed ENDLESS.

      How much longer? I asked. Mom and I were staying at my aunt and uncle’s house for the wedding. Aunt Inez is Laura’s mother. She’s also my mother’s older sister.

      Twenty minutes, Mom said.

      Too long, I said. My stomach rumbled. I’m starving.

      I’m sure Aunt Inez will have something ready for lunch, Mom said.

      I was counting on it. Aunt Inez loves to cook. My brother, Jimmy, can eat a whole pan of her custard flan dessert by himself. In sixty seconds flat!

      I took the wedding invitation out of my bag. A thin piece of see-through paper covered the gold lettering. The inside of the envelope was gold, too. The invitation had come with a small R.S.V.P. card.

      R.S.V.P. =

      French: Répondez s’il vous plaît =

      English: Reply, if you please.

      Mom had already sent the little card back to let Laura know our family would attend.

      Jimmy and my dad weren’t coming until the rehearsal dinner on Friday night. They don’t like all the getting-ready fuss. They just like the parts with food.

      FOOD! My stomach growled again. Thinking about the wedding took my mind off soup, salad, and sandwiches.

      The night before we left for Aunt Inez’s house, I was so excited about being a bridesmaid that I couldn’t sleep. So I looked up weddings online. Our modern traditions began in some very strange ways. There are dozens of superstitions about weddings, and most of them are about bad luck.

      I don’t believe in superstitions. Still, I brought a new penny for Laura to put in her shoe.

      It probably won’t make the bride and groom healthy and rich, but it can’t hurt.

      Better safe than sorry.

      Busy Bride

      Laura is twelve years older than me, but we’re as close as sisters. I hadn’t seen her in weeks. I was so excited!

      As soon as we got to her house, I burst through the front door shouting, Laura! We’re here!

      Is that you, Mildred? Laura yelled. She ran down the stairs.

      No, it’s me, I said, smiling. I opened my arms for a hug.

      Oh. Hi, Claudia, Laura said. She sounded disappointed. She didn’t hug me. She looked at her watch.

      Aunt Inez came in from the kitchen and hugged my mom. Then she hugged me.

      Who’s Mildred? I asked.

      The dressmaker, Laura said. She looked out the window and added,

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