How to Be Popular

cause every small town in southern Indiana needs an observatory.

Not.

It also means my mother isn’t speaking to him, because the Super Sav-Mart, with its reduced prices, is probably going to put all of the shops along the square, including Courthouse Square Books, out of business.

snapping her fingers

Planets orbit around the sun—people orbit around sunny people!

“No, ma’am,” I said.
The thing is, I really didn’t want to get into it with her. Who would?
But she wouldn’t let it go.
“Goodness. I just know I know your na