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Kemp said.
    Alice Wendleken raised her hand. “Would beautiful hair and shiny hair count as one compliment?”
    This sounded to me as if Alice planned to compliment herself, which would save someone else the trouble, but Miss Kemp said, “I’m not talking about beautiful hair and nice teeth, Alice. I mean characteristics, personal qualities, something special.”
    This could be hard, I thought. Take Albert Pelfrey. When you think of Albert Pelfrey, you think fat. Even Albert thinks fat. It’s hard to think anything else, so I would really have to study Albert to find some special personal quality that wasn’t just about being fat. And besides Albert there were twenty-eight other people, including Imogene Herdman.
    â€œWhat’s a compliment?” Imogene asked me.
    â€œIt’s something nice you tell someone, like if someone is especially helpful or especially friendly.”
    Alice looked Imogene up and down. “Or especially clean,” she said.
    â€œOkay.” Imogene frowned. “But mice would still be better.”

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    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
    Copyright © 1972 by Barbara Robinson
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Robinson, Barbara
    Â Â Â The best Christmas pageant ever / Barbara Robinson
    Â Â Â Â Â p. cm.
    Â Â Â Summary: The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.
    Â Â Â ISBN 0-06-025043-7 — ISBN 0-06-025044-5 (lib. bdg.) ISBN 0-06-440275-4 (pbk.)
    Â Â Â EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780062076939
    Â Â Â [1. Christmas — Fiction.] I. Title.
    PZ7.R5628Be3 1972
    72076501
    [Fic] lcac
    CIP
    AC

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