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Chapter Five: That was a bit dubious in which some first nations inaccuracy abounds as it would in the mid 20th century. Either way that makes little difference to Otis making a massive boo-boo in which Ellen's hair gets cut and a bit too much of it, I guess we'll find out in the next chapter how the dude from the main office is going to wail on Otis...

Chapter Four: Weird bit with him and Stewy attempting to do the science homework for a high school football player by collecting bugs for him and then battling over who gives him his collection and a goofy bit where a younger kid, Bucky, is also helping out Otis as he admires him.

Trtippy as heck to have both Ellen and Otis feeding the class rat feeling it was each own's pet! Ellen confessed first which rather drowned out Otis' confession, now their love for Mutt The Rat seems to be bringing them together as friends???

Got this one started today and Otis has as many or more annoying attributes than he did in the Ellen Tebbits book. Dude looks like he lives in a project and did mention there was no yard , so okay. There is some bullfighting thing the teacher suggests since the class has more boys than girls for dancing either lessons or some event. Otis was okay with it until he found out he was going to be one half of the bull rather than the bullfighter dude with the red cape thing going on. One would THINK he would have been the bull's rear-end but that job went to Stewie who isn't much better than Otis if at all. I awaited for Otis to rip one in the costume but it never happened. Oh well.

Ellen and Austine were sent out to clap erasers together. They managed to patch things up and are friends again. THE END! YAY!

Chapter 19: Gooood heavens! I know I just read the darn thing but how does she find these clods??? Don't build a song like "Mama" and not listen to yer mum! YIKES!

Chapter Six: Some kind of celebration in which Ellen gets to play a rat in the play and then gets wrangled into a May pole dance and tangles things and Austine helps her out, but I'm not sure she knows it's Ellen because of her costume.

Chapter Five and Ellen and Austine want to dress up in a same dress for fourth grade but one mom sews the pattern incompatibly and what a disaster! The woes of days of sewing ones own clothes and going to school with the likes of Otis entails, ugh!

Chapters 17 & 18 (I think) and wow, that was a lot of weirdness with Melanie and Eddie Murphy. ISSUES, but I appreciate her clearly explaining so much. All the broo-ha with media and all that. These days it's hard to imagine anyone cares, even news people. I am glad her mum gave some thoughts on the follow up dude. I'm glad the girls got a mention and another reunion that was being planned at the time and my sports geek husband could explain the L.A. Galaxy bit I was uncertain about with Victoria's husband, etc. Again, Scary Spice keeps me reading, I'm satisfied to report.

Chapter Four: That was a pretty bizarre one with the two gals going horse back riding together and Ellen wasn't as practiced at it as she led Austine to believe, oops! And dang lots of off road hecklers was hard to believe sometimes, whatta buncha rude hosers out there. They got through it okay, thankfully.

Chapter Three: Austine helps Ellen clean up from the beet scavenge. Otis has some jumping beans that keep interrupting classwork. Since Ellen got dirty she finally gets to the clap the erasers but it'll be with Otis who then drops beans and the teacher decides Austine will clap erasers with Ellen instead of him. Then it is revealed Miss Joyce didn't send Ellen out to clap erasers as her dresses were always so clean. OF course. So Ellen is pretty chuffed at the end of this chapter, huzzah!

THANK GOODNESS there are audiobooks of this now. I kept going through so much Fairacre it reminded me to look. Juliet Stevenson is doing well thus far. Aye. So much I expected is revealing itself to be!

Finally finished chapter one and there was SO MUDH on the order of adjusting one's underwear, apparently this is worse when they are woolen, yikes. Glad that wasn't part of MY childhood. SHEESH Thankfully Ellen and Austine got along upon discovering this as a commonality. Oh, and Otis IS Annoying with a capital A!

Can't recall what chapter I was in but the nice thing to discover is that when all the snit went down with her and Murphy, who got the ball rolling for mending via paterniky? HIS MOM! Nice...