CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX On my second day Mrs. Campbell worked hard with me and gave me lots of little tests. You have a lot to learn, she explained. But you are doing better than most students for how long you have been signing. I didn’t mind working hard at ASL, especially since everyone else signed so fast I could barely keep up. Like when I played baseball, I didn’t just want to be good at throwing the ball, wanted to be the best pitcher. It was the same with signing, I didn’t just want to be good, I wanted to be one of the best. So even after Kyle fell asleep, I stayed up and worked on my signing. Why not? The light was on anyway. Today I was really tired from Mrs. Campbell’s class and all that concentration. When the school day ended, I went outside. It was refreshing to get out of the

