Fish In A Tree

by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

He comes over and does something a teacher has never done even once in my whole life. He high-fives me.

‘Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid.’”

“Uh, yeah? Are you kidding? Last summer, my mother kept giving me the choice of reading or washing her car. She had the cleanest car in the neighborhood all summer long.”