Sophie the Chatterbox by Lara Bergen

shrugged. “I don’t know.”
    Then she got a feeling. It was not so good. For Sophie to find money, someone else must have lost it first. But there was no one else around.
    Sophie started to feel better. There wasn’t anybody to ask. Plus didn’t her big sister, Hayley, always say, “Finders keepers, losers sweepers”?
    Sophie wasn’t sure why losers had to sweep. But that was their problem. The fifty dollars was hers!
    “So what are you going to do with it?” Kate asked. She grinned and licked her lips. “I think you should buy lots of gum!”
    Sophie knew that Kate liked gum. A lot. This was mostly because her mom did not buy it—not since Kate chewed some, then put it behind her ear to keep it. It worked for a girl in a movie they saw. But it did not work for Kate. It got stuck in her hair, and her mom had to cut a bunch of it off. Kate looked funny for a while. But she still liked gum just as much, after all that.
    Sophie thought about gum for a minute, then shook her head. “I’m going to keep the money. And tomorrow at school I’m going to tell everyone about it,” she said.
    Sophie could picture the kids in her class. They would be amazed that she was so rich. They would never call her just plain Sophie … or Sophie M…. or even Sophie Miller again!

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    1: SOPHIE the AWESOME
    2: SOPHIE the HERO
    3: SOPHIE the CHATTERBOX
    4: SOPHIE the ZILLIONAIRE
    5: SOPHIE the SNOOP
    6: SOPHIE the DAREDEVIL

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