By JUDY BLUME
He told her anyway. I knew he would. "I have fourteen dollars and seventy-four cents. I mise my money every night before I go to sleep."
"You mise your money?" Sheila asked. Then she shook her head at me like it's my fault he thinks mise is a word.
Henry,
who runs the elevator in our building, laughed. "Nothing like having a miser in the family."
"You don't have to be a miser, Fudge," Sheila said. "If you like counting money so much, you can work at a bank when you grow up."
"Yeah," Fudge said. "I can work at a bank and mise my money all day long."
Sheila sighed. "He doesn't get it." she said to me.
Publisher: Macmillan.
Price: $14.95
Age group: 9-11 yrs
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