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Show Chapter Five Mr. Prenzlow made the announcement Tuesday morning in assembly. Basketball tryouts would be held Wednesday afternoon. Although Kim had been expecting it, it seemed as though Mr. Prenzlow was announcing the end of the world. She worried that she hadn't practised enough and that Pilar was even better now than she was when Kim first saw her play and that maybe no freshmen would be put on the team at all. She tried to console herself with the fact that she had played every day at lunch time for the last three weeks, but then so had Pilar...and a lot of other girls who were probably trying out too. Most of the girls, except for Carol Ann Martin, had been decent about sharing the basketball standards. Carol Ann was a senior. She and her best friend, Melissa Welker, made it clear to Kim and everyone else that they were not welcome whenever they practiced on the same standard. Carol Ann had biceps that bulged over the short sleeves on her 78 |