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Company  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic ormechanical,including photocopying or recording,or by any information storage and retrieval system,without the priorwritten permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law.Requestsfor permision to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers,Attn:Permissions,6277 Sea Harbor Drive,Orlando,Florida 32887-6777.  \nPrinted in China  \nSBN-13:978-0-547-01963-5  \nS8N-10:0-547-01963-7  \n3456780940181716151413121110  \nif you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge,Houghton Miffin Harcourt School Publishersretains title to the materials and they may not be resold.Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited.  \nPossession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication,or any portion of it,intoelectronic format.  \nTom Cunningham stood in the spotlight on a large school stage.He couldn't remember a single word of the story he had written andwas supposed to read out loud.All sound was muted except for thehissing and booing that was coming from the audience.All Tom coulddo was stand there,frozen with fright.  \nTom's English teacher,Mr.Irving,was in the audience.He hada front-row seat right beside Tom's brother and sister—the twins.They watched him onstage with a look of disappointment on theirfaces.Tom knew what that look meant:once again he had failed tolive up to his brother and sister's reputation at Chicago's HawthorneMiddle School.The twins had passed Mr.Irving's course with flyingcolors and had proven they were talented writers.But Tom,just threeyears behind them,would always be a failure in their eyes.  \n2  \nChapter 1  \nFeeling the Pressure  \nThe stage lights suddenly flared with full-force intensity.Tom opened his eyes.Morning sunlight poured into his room.The stage and the hissing audience were gone.It had all beena dream—the same one Tom had been having for two weeks.  \nTom's recurrent dream started when Mr.Irving gave theclass a creative writing assignment.The students had beenstudying the literary short story and were now supposed towrite their own short story.Tom had to turn in his manuscriptby the end of the week.  \nFor Tom,a good grade,even a satisfactory grade,wouldmean the difference between passing and flunking Mr.Irving'sEnglish class.Tom glanced at the calendar on his bedroomwall.Today was Thursday.He had one day left to complete theassignment.The pressure was almost more than he could stand.  \nAlex and Emily,Tom's brother and sister,had been in Mr.Irving's English honors class.They not only aced the course,they became known throughout the school as gifted writerswith a bright future ahead of them.  \nAlex and Emily had left their mark at Hawthorne MiddleSchool.Now in seventh grade,Tom tried desperately to earntheir 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