Big-Mouth Mitchie by sheena d.

Big-Mouth Mitchie by sheena d.

Mitchie’s mechanical pencil shatters into a hundred billion trillion pieces. “Dewanda, behave!” the teacher screams at me. She don’t know us or our names or remember that Dewanda goes to a new school now. So we don’t call her by her real name either. We just say Ms. Dontmatter—Mitchie’s idea. “When you destroy personal property,” Ms. Dontmatter scolds, “you reinforce stereotypes about people like you.” People like me always get in trouble.   Las…