The Gift Giver

In this story Sherman is the principal character.  

There was a very important basketball game, the big game, between fifth and sixth grade.  Big Russell was angry with Sherman because he was absent for the game and he was the captain.

Amir has the idea of using Yellow Bird.  The game starts and the girls are surprised to see Yellow Bird with the team and dressed as he was wearing “daddy’s drawers”.  In the game Amir tells the group to cheer for Russell.  So they start “Go Russell!”.  Te team makes points.  Yellow moves so no one could catch him.  He and Russell make a team and win the game.  Everyone see Russell and everyone see Russell and Yellow Bird as heroes. 

Doris wants to play with Mickey and Dotty, but She can never do the things that other kids do.  They have a problem so the twins go and don’t speak to Dotty.

Amir starts to think about Sherman because they can’t see him and when they see him he runs away.

Sherman does not want them to know that he does not want to go a foster home and is living in a basement.  The students say different things.  Lavinia the gossiper could start them.  They said that he was sent to a reform school.

Dotty follows him and Sherman tells him the problem that he can’t stay with grandmother and that he does not want the foster home.  She helps with food and Amir gets a blanket.  The basement was not clean.  Amir thinks of Sherman and the story ends, to be continued…