
"Is a school fight ever a good thing? Can detention be a lot of fun? Is cleaning the cafeteria punishment or an adventure?
When the new student Sid defended took his breath away, made him feel brave, and changed his life, he knew he was going to pay for fighting at school when he got home, and he does. He remembers telling his little sister to dial 911, and now Daddy is hauled off to jail, and he wonders if his world is falling apart.
But Royal has walked into Sid’s life and his heart, so maybe the end is really just a new beginning."

A Royal Holiday By Emery C. Walters After everyone else had left the cafeteria, Sid sat down at the teacher’s table and finished off the principal’s piece of pumpkin pie. Not the part he’d barely touched with his fork, but everything else. The principal—on principle, ha ha, always took some of everything and then only briefly, if at all, tasted it. In short, he wasted it. Sid was aghast at how much he, and the other teachers, left on their plates. The kids were just as bad, but that was to be expected. You could tell which kids had the free lunch and who bought because they could by how much wasted food was left on the plate, or the table, or the floor. He himself should have gotten the free lunch, but his step-father wouldn’t stoop to ‘charity.’ Thus he and his siblings always brought
