Free Only Emma by Sally Warner, Jamie Harper

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    First published in the United States of America by Viking,
a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2005
Published by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2006
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    Text copyright © Sally Warner, 2005
Illustrations copyright © Jamie Harper, 2005
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THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE VIKING EDITION AS FOLLOWS :
Warner, Sally.
Only Emma / by Sally Warner; illustrated by Jamie Harper
p. cm.
Summary: Third-grader Emma’s peaceful life as an only child is disrupted
when she has to temporarily share her tidy bedroom with four-year-old
Anthony Scarpetto, a bona fide “pain in the patootie.”
EISBN: 9781101567593
[1. Only child—Fiction. 2. Single-parent families—Fiction.
3. Interpersonal relations—Fiction.] I. Harper, Jamie, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.W24644On 2004 [Fic]—dc22 2004012478
Set in Bitstream Carmina
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For the one and only

Julia Bosley! — S. W.

    For Kate—J.H.

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    Crazy Anthony
    Anthony Scarpetto saw me reaching for that puzzle piece, but he grabbed it first. And he doesn’t even know where it goes. “Give it,” I say to him, but he does not let me have it.
    “You’re not the boss of me, Emma McGraw,” he says, but that’s not true. He is only four, and I am eight, which is twice as much. Of course I am the boss.
    Besides, we’re at my house. You are always the boss—of other kids, anyway—when you are at your own house. That’s the rule, even though no one ever wrote it down.
    Until now.
    Why am I even
trying
to do a puzzle with a four-year-old baby on a Sunday night? Because my mom told me I had to be nice to Anthony, that’s why. She’s friends with his mom and dad. They used to be our neighbors at our old house, before we moved to this condo.
    In my opinion, a condo is way worse than a house. You always have to worry about whether or not you are bothering your neighbors, for one thing, even though they never worry about bothering you—with their noise, with the stupid decorations on their porches, with their weird cooking smells.
    Other people’s cooking is just plain
strange
.
    And there are lots of other bad things about living in a condo, but I’m too busy keeping an eye on Anthony to mention them.
    My mom and Anthony’s mom are sitting in our kitchen right now. They are drinking Constant Comment tea and yak-yak-yakking.
    Anthony Scarpetto has black curly hair,brown eyes, and fat pink cheeks. He is not as cute as he sounds,