Description Horn Book Fanfare Two-time Newbery Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly's alter ego--the effervescent Marisol Rainey--returns in this illustrated school story about overcoming stage fright and taking your turn that is just right for fans of Ramona, Clementine, and Ivy & Bean. Under normal circumstances, Marisol loves language arts class. Mrs. Ruby is her favorite teacher and always makes her feel special...until the day Mrs. Ruby makes a horrible, terrible, downright dreadful announcement: All the kids have to write their own haiku. As if that's not bad enough, they have to read their haiku in front of the whole class ! Marisol would rather swim through a pack of jellyfish than get up in front of the whole class to read anything, much less a haiku. Maybe she can stay home sick. Maybe she can transfer to another school. Maybe she can conjure a spell that makes her disappear. Or maybe, just maybe , she'll figure out a way to take her turn. Told in short chapters with illustrations by the author on almost every page, this stand-alone addit