CHAPTER ONE Once there was a little girl named Anna Anna was eight years old Anna was in third grade at school 1
Anna lived with her mother and father and her brother Bill who like a lot of older brothers usually just picked on her and said mean things to her for fun They lived in the quaint town of Rolling Hill Penn sylvania which was a really nice place to live Anna was a really great kid She was smart and worked hard in school She had good friends too Jimmy Lisa and Jenny She walked to school with them every day But Anna had one big problem The problem was there all along and not really such a big deal Anna didn’t even know anything was wrong When Anna won the spelling bee at school she correctly spelled the word E X A C T L Y 2
And she spelled it exactly right This meant that Anna was the best speller in her grade in her school As luck would have it the town’s mayor Mayor Johnson believed it was very important for kids to learn how to spell He thought that was just great So he arranged for the winners of the spelling bees for each grade to join him on television for a short program This meant that the winners of the spelling bee for the first second third fourth and fifth grades would all be on television with the mayor 3
