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    Left Out

    By Donna Jo Napoli

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    Other people's feelings mattter
    Molly is angry and embarassed that her big sister, Amanda, has a baby. Now some of Molly's friends won't play with her, and they talk about her behind her back. Molly doesn't want anything to do with them, either. She's left out, and it's all Amanda's fault!
    The Little Angel of Compassion wants to earn her wings, but she knows she has a tough task ahead of her. Molly is pushing her sister away, just when she needs all the friends she can get. Can the Little Angel of Compassion help Molly get over her anger before she ends up all alone?
    Have compassion
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateOct 6, 2015
    ISBN9781481465915
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    Donna Jo Napoli

    Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com.

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      Left Out - Donna Jo Napoli

      Angel Talk

      The little angels crowded together, waiting for their turn in the races.

      Every detail of the day was perfect so far: The archangels had prepared a feast for midday, tons of little angels had come to play, and even the weather was right—balmy.

      The Little Angel of Compassion carefully balanced an egg on a spoon and held the spoon between her teeth. The goal of this event was to go as fast as possible all the way to a post on the other side of the field and back again without dropping the egg. If it were up to her, she’d have gone slowly—one step with each breath—rather than risk breaking the egg. But she couldn’t let her team down. She clenched her teeth and took long, smooth strides, all the way across the field, all the way back. Yay! She passed her egg to the next in line.

      Good work, little angel, said the Archangel of Compassion.

      Thank you. The Little Angel of Compassion pulled her harmonica out of her pocket and swung it round and round on its chain. I don’t really understand, though, why we do this race with eggs. If we drop them, the poor chicks inside die.

      Those eggs don’t hold baby chicks. They’re not fertilized.

      Oh, good, said the little angel.

      I was wondering . . . how much are you looking forward to the rest of the events in this field day? asked the Archangel of Compassion.

      The little angel looked up at her curiously. You have a task for me, don’t you?

      Mmmhmm.

      The Little Angel of Compassion touched the feathers at the edges of her wings. Each feather had been rewarded to her for helping a child who needed to learn compassion. The little angel loved all her feathers, but there was still a big bare spot in the center of each wing. She had a long way to go before those wings would be entirely feathered and she’d hear the bell that announced her passage from being a little angel to being an archangel. Is it worth a lot of feathers? Enough to earn my wings?

      The archangel gave a sympathetic smile. I’m not sure. But I do know this girl needs you.

      The little angel looked wistfully back at the races. Could it wait till tomorrow?

      Every day we wait, the problem grows bigger.

      I’ll be the only little angel to miss the rest of field day, said the Little Angel of Compassion.

      No, you won’t. Look. The Archangel of Compassion pointed to one little angel sitting alone, watching the races from a distance.

      But she chose not to race, said the little angel. "She quit on her last angel task because she was lazy.

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