Sophie the Hero

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Sophie was a hero. No joke. A real live hero! And it was all anyone could talk about on the bus to school.

Especially Sophie.

“Mrs. Blatt! Have you heard? I’m a hero!” she told the bus driver as soon as she got on. “Just call me Sophie the Hero from now on! Right, Ella?”

She turned to Ella Fitzgibbon, the little kindergartner behind her.

“Right!” said Ella. “Sophie the Hero — my hero!”

Sophie smiled. Then she patted Ella’s head. This was something the old, boring Sophie never would have done. But she was not the old, boring Sophie anymore.

The old, boring Sophie had thought that her next-door neighbor Ella was a pest. She never left Sophie alone, even when Sophie was playing important third-grade games with Kate Barry, her very best friend.

But things had changed. Now Sophie was Ella’s hero! And thanks to Ella, Sophie had a great new name. A name that made her special. A name that said it all — just what Sophie had been hoping for!

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