Two Speckled Eggs

Its Gingers birthday, and she has to invite all the girls in her class to her party, including Lyla Browning. Lyla isnt like the other girls: she smells like old leaves, doesnt talk much, and once brought a tarantula to school for show-and-tell. On the day of the party, Lyla is much earlier than everyone else. But even after the others arrive, Gingers party doesnt go quite the way shed hoped: some of the girls change the rules to the games, and no one likes her silver and gold birthday cake — except Lyla. By the time Lyla gives Ginger her present — a tiny homemade nest with two delicious malted-milk eggs — Ginger begins to wonder: is being different really such a bad thing?