Julia DeVillers - New Girl in Town

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ALSO BY JULIA DEVILLERS

LIBERTY PORTER, FIRST DAUGHTER

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Aladdin hardcover edition July 2010

Text copyright 2010 by Julia DeVillers

Illustrations copyright 2010 by Paige Pooler

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Designed by Karin Paprocki

The text of this book was set in Bauer Bodoni.

The illustrations for this book were rendered digitally.

Manufactured in the United States of America/0510 FFG

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

DeVillers, Julia.

New girl in town / by Julia DeVillers ; illustrated by Paige Pooler.1st Aladdin hardcover ed.

p. cm.(Liberty Porter, first daughter)

Summary: Nine-year-old Liberty Porter, daughter of the President of the United States,
starts at a new school and tries to be an exemplary first daughter.

ISBN 978-1-4169-9128-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)

[1. PresidentsFamilyFiction. 2. First day of schoolFiction. 3. SchoolsFiction.

4. White House (Washington, D.C.)Fiction. 5. Washington (D.C.)Fiction.]

I. Pooler, Paige, ill. II. Title.

PZ7.D4974Ne 2010

[Fic]dc22

2010000115

ISBN 978-1-4424-0644-5 (eBook)

For Jack Hamilton DeVillers

IF YOUR FATHER HAS BEEN PRESIDENT OF THE United States for a whole week, there are a few things you might want to know:

1. You shouldnt run through the first floor of the White House in pajamas. You might run into a press conference full of adults who will stare at you.

2. You should ask your parents before you decide that its your mission to welcome kids to the White House and invite a whole tour group to play in your bedroom.

3. You dont automatically get a pony.

4. You do get a Secret Service agent who will let you talk to his friends over his walkie-talkie.

5. You dont want to eat too many of the White House chefs Porter Butter cookies. Especially the night before your first day of school.

Liberty Porter had only learned this last one this morning. She had sneaked an extra cookie after dinner last night. Okay, three. And now she was lying in bed with a sickish stomach. She was slightly nauseous and also slightly nervous. Because today was Liberty Porters first day at her new school!

She had woken up way before her alarm clock was set to ring. It was so early that it was dark outside, but she couldnt go back to sleep. She thought about getting up and going out into the house. But she didnt want to wake her parents up. The president of the United States had to get a good nights sleep.

Thats what her mom had told her the first morning, after Liberty woke up before her parents and went to the White House movie theater. She hadnt meant to turn the volume up that loud.

And what her mom had said the second morning, after Liberty had woken up before her parents and decided to play upstairs. She had planned to play the drums in the music room softly. But... well... they were drums.

So now she just lay quietly in her bed, thinking about the first day of school.

Liberty Porter was not the first kid who lived in the White House to go to school, of course. And some First Kids even went to school right inside the White House. President Lincolns and President Hayess children were homeschooled right down the hall from Libertys bedroom. President Kennedy had made a first-grade classroom for his daughter and ten students upstairs on the third floor.

Liberty would go to a fourth-grade classroom at a nearby school. Everyone else had started at that school in the fall. Liberty would be the only new kid. And the only First Kid. Everyone knew she was starting school. It was big news. It was such big news it was even on the news.

First Daughter Liberty Porter heads off for her first day of school tomorrow! the announcer had said on the television news yesterday.

Suddenly Liberty felt really, really nervous. She picked up her new beanie rottweiler, Alice.

Ive never been to a new school before, she told Alice.

Liberty did not know what this new school would be like at all!

Liberty had gone to the same school her whole entire life. She knew everybody. Everybody knew her. She had known that Perfect Paige would be perfect. She had known that Max Mellon would be annoying.

Liberty thought about her last day at her school. Most people in her class had said theyd miss her. They even made a card for her that said Well Miss You, Liberty!

Liberty had felt sad when shed gotten the card. She even started to cry a little bit. She had sniffled and then blew her nose. Unfortunately she blew her nose a little loud and Max Mellon heard her.

Ha! Max had laughed. Liberty snorted!

The rest of the day Max had called her by a new nickname:

Pig-gerty Porter, First Snorter.

Liberty had a very cheerful thought about her new school: Max Mellon would not be there.