Franny and her family had just moved to the house at the end of Daffodil Street, and she was new at school. She liked her teacher, Miss Shelly. She thought she would like the other kids, too. But they really weren’t very friendly toward Franny.
The other kids weren’t mean; they just had never known anybody like Franny.
Nobody else had a jump rope like Franny’s.
Franny’s lunches didn’t look like the other kids’ lunches either.
And when they played hide-and-seek, no one could find her.
Franny could tell that the other kids were afraid of her, and that made her sad, because she really did want to make friends.
Her teacher, Miss Shelly, noticed what was happening. And one day she asked Franny to stay after class.
