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Real Mad: A Narrative Fiction

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It was 4th grade at Kaneland John Shields and Mrs. Bregman,(Mrs. Bergman is short, has black slik hair, and very nice) on the very first day of school, announced that we were going to have to read 40 books. It was only the girls that were happy and the rest of the boys were like, "UUUHHH!" I also thought I was not going to do this because I don't want to read all of those books.. But, one day my mom started mad . Real Mad. It was in the first quarter and like I said before, I am going to be lazy and not do it. I only read 3 books. I thought my mom wouldn't care because it would be a lot of books. I also remember hearing the girls say "This is too easy" or " I can finish all my books in a day". In the second quarter I only read …show more content…

Man, was she was mad. So mad her face turned red. My mom is usual nice, but this time she went mad. My mom yelled to me as nice as she could " Why have you only read 7 books the past 2 quarters?" I answered "Dunno?" "Well, you better finish all 40 books. Or hope the best..." my mom exclaimed as steam was coming out her ears. "Uh O-OK" As I Shift to walk backwards to the stairs that go to my room. I was scared out of my mind. I did really have to finish these 40 books. Or maybe I thought she could just be playing a game with me and just wanted to scare me. In the next quarter I tried really hard to finish at least 15 books. I read shorter books like the Magic Tree House and books like that. I had a new strategy and that was to read more books at a time. I would have three books at my house . I would read one chapter then close the book. Then I would read another a chapter in a different book. One day my teacher in a mumbled voice told me," You are reading too easy books. Pick some harder books to read." I think she was mad and surprised that I was exploiting the

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