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21 " Sabrina looked as if she might have been born on a stage. She smiled glamorously at the audience and the judges, curtsied prettily, and shook Mrs. Peabody’s hand smoothly.Okay, I thought, after all the little girls had been introduced. So Sabrina was gracious and sophisticated. So what? She might not have any talent at all. Or maybe she’d be really, really stupid and not able to answer her question. "
― Ann M. Martin , Little Miss Stoneybrook... and Dawn (The Baby-Sitters Club, #15)
22 " If you could change one thing about this world, what would it be?” Mrs. Peabody asked her.“It would be wars,” Myriah replied seriously. “I would stop them. I would say to the people who were making the wars, ‘Now you stop that. You settle this problem yourselves like grown-ups. Our children want peace.’ That’s what I’d change. "
23 " I put my head in my hands. Neither Claire nor Margo was going to win.“Hey,” said Claudia, “don’t feel too bad. At least your contestants stuck it out.”“I wanted one of them to win something, though. I wanted to prove how good I could be with kids.”“You did!?” exclaimed Kristy. “So did I. I guess we all did. Maybe we learned something, though. Even the best baby-sitter can’t change a kid.”“Yeah,” agreed Mary Anne. “And I’d rather have a kid like any one of ours than like Sabrina Bouvier. "
24 " Something occurred to me then. It was all about the unfairness of the pageant. Mary Anne was absolutely right. Myriah really should have won, if this pageant was honestly based on people’s talents and character, but it wasn’t. I was glad that because Myriah had been given such a terrific prize, she wasn’t disappointed about not winning the grand prize. But I was sorry that she had to settle (even happily) for second best. "