Dance Team (8 page)

Suddenly I felt a little better. “Maybe with someone like Cate or Trez as captain, Mrs. Nuñez will let us keep going,” I said. “Most of the team didn't know anything about what Camilla was up to. We still have three years to win regionals!”

“And nail my leg-hold turns,” Olivia said.

I smiled. “And my triple pirouettes!”

Charnan Simon lives in Seattle, Washington, and has written more than one hundred books for young readers. Her two daughters are mostly grown-up, and she misses having teenagers running in and out of the house.