" You must be Corrie,” I said to the little girl standing on our front steps. She nodded shyly.

Corrie was very pretty, with brownish-blonde hair cut straight across her forehead in bangs, and straight around her shoulders below. Her eyes were framed by long, dark lashes. She was small for her age and had no color at all in her cheeks. "

― Ann M. Martin , Claudia and the Sad Good-bye (The Baby-sitters Club, #26)