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okay," said Gwen. "I'm not really allowed to borrow money." Mimi looked like
she was about to cry. It was a good thing that a bunch of strangers were walking up to us, because that made us concentrate on other things, at least for a few minutes.

    WHAT I COULD NOT BELIEVE
    I could not believe that all the new people were looking at Sammy's table, and what was even more surprising was that they were buying his junk. In only a couple of minutes he sold four things, and I didn't even sell one single thing. His junk was selling faster than all of my good stuff. And it was all because of his notes. Everyone loved his notes.

    THE FOUR THINGS SAMMY SOLD
    WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
    "Three dollars and fifty cents!" said Sammy, holding up his money.
    "Well, your stuff is only selling because of your notes," said Mimi.
    "Well, don't get mad at me," said Sammy. "It was Grace's idea. Why don't you just write your own notes?"
    Sammy is not a boy who likes to pick a fight. Sammy is not even a boy who knows if you are trying to pick a fight with him.
Sammy is just Sammy. And Sammy's idea was a great one, even if he thought it was mine, which it wasn't.
    EVERYTHING HAS A STORY
    I had to run inside and get some paper so Mimi and I could write notes for our stuff too. We wanted to get finished before more people showed up and spent all their money at Sammy's table. But sometimes, if you really think about something and why you have it, and how you used it in your life, you can change your mind about giving it away.

    TWO THINGS I TOOK OFF MY SALE TABLE
    MIMI'S SALE TABLE
    Writing notes was not a good idea for Mimi, because after writing about her stuff she decided she liked it so much that she couldn't sell any of it. She and Gwen went back to her house to take her stuff inside so it wouldn't get sold by accident.
    While they were gone, I put Owly in a bag under my table. That way no one could buy him. I still wasn't ready to give up on helping Mimi. A good superhero always has more than one plan of action, and I just had to think of another one.
    MAX
    Max finally showed up while Mimi and Gwen were at Mimi's house. I told him he
could use Mimi's table to sell his stuff. Max said he didn't have anything to sell because he had sold all his old stuff before he moved next door to Mimi. He said he was there to shop. He spent a lot of time at Sammy's table saying things like "I can't believe you are selling this. This is so awesome! I've got to get this." It was very annoying!
    When he finally got to my table he only had fifty cents left to spend. I let him have a plastic box that was marked for one dollar. Sometimes you have to make deals if you want to make a sale. It was better than nothing.
    I was hoping some girl customers would come by because they were probably not going to be thinking that Sammy's collection was so awesome and amazing. They were going to be looking for girl stuff.

    WHAT WAS A BIT OF A SURPRISE
    Sometimes girls can be really hard shoppers. I thought for sure that the girls who came by would just snap up all my great stuff no problem, but that was not what happened. The girls really liked to bargain. One girl even tried to get me to sell two almost brand-new Barbie dolls for only ten cents each. And it wasn't even like she had only twenty cents. Her purse was full of dollar bills—I saw them. Sometimes you have to be tough or
else your entire table of really great stuff will get sold for almost nothing.
    I finally said I would sell the dolls for fifty cents each. The girl seemed really happy because the original price was a dollar each, so she thought she was getting a real bargain. She probably thought she was a super shopper, but I was happy to get rid of them. I don't play with Barbies anymore anyway. the sale
    THE SALE
    I was pretty sure that Gwen noticed that Owly was gone, but she didn't say anything about it and I didn't talk about it either. We decided to end the sale at lunchtime. There is only so much fun you can