The Silver Crown - Robert C. O'Brien
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EnglishVoice Age
Teen (13-17)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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her name was Ellen. She had brown hair, gray eyes, clean teeth, rather knobby knees and was 55 a half inches tall. She was 10 years old. Yesterday, she had been nine. But today was her birthday, and the crown was her first present. It did not occur to her toe wonder from whom it had come. She was merely aware that it was hers by right, her bedroom, a white room with a slanted ceiling, was in the attic floor of the house. Her parents, her brother and younger sister all had their beds on the floor below. She looked at the clock. It was not quite seven. And she knew now that school was out, that they would still be asleep. It was not the hair birthday.