11/3/2022 0 Comments Raymie nightingale![]() Louisiana opens to random pages and reads from it. Raymie shows her book, A Bright and Shining Path: The Life of Florence Nightingale, to Louisiana. Louisiana stays over at Raymie’s, and the Rancheros plan to sneak out that night to look for Archie. Louisiana is desperate to rescue him, even though Beverly tries to convince her there is no such place and the cat has probably been put down. ![]() Grandma said she took him to the Very Friendly Animal Center. Louisiana tells the girls that she had to give up her beloved cat, Archie, because they couldn’t afford to care for him. Beverly takes Ida’s baton and bashes it in the rocks outside. The girls find a bunch of trophies that don’t belong to Ida. When the girls can’t find their baton teacher at a scheduled lesson, Beverly breaks into her home. Louisiana dubs the girls The Three Rancheros. They eat tuna from cans at the run-down house Louisiana and her grandmother call home. Her grandmother appears in their beat-up station wagon and whisks the girls away. Meanwhile, Louisiana frees the janitor’s bird from its cage. Beverly manages to retrieve the book by demonstrating unexpected compassion toward the old woman. When she accidentally loses the library book under the bed of a scary, wailing woman, Raymie enlists her baton partners to help her get it back. She visits Golden Glen Happy Retirement Home and offers to read her library book about Florence Nightingale to someone. Raymie needs to do a good deed she can record on her contest entry form. Raymie often ponders her own soul, as well as wondering where others’ souls go when they die. Mom isn’t acting like herself either, as she tries to deal with Dad’s absence. Her wise swim and lifesaving teacher moves away, and her elderly neighbor dies. Raymie’s father is not the only person to leave her. The woman marches off in frustration each time, leaving the girls to become acquainted as they wait for their guardians. Various circumstances, including Louisiana’s fainting spells and Beverly’s insolence, keep Ida from ever teaching a twirling lesson. ![]() The tough girl is sometimes beaten by her mom and is initially cold and sarcastic toward Raymie and Louisiana. She tells the girls she intends to sabotage the contest. Louisiana wants to win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire contest so she and her grandmother can survive.īeverly, the daughter of a baton champion, has no interest in twirling. Louisiana and her grandmother barely have enough money for food, so they frequently steal it. She lives with her tiny derelict grandmother, and the two are always on the run for fear Louisiana will be taken to a children’s home. Louisiana tells the other girls her parents were famous trapeze artists called the Flying Elefantes. Raymie is attending her first lesson with former baton champ Ida Nee when she meets Louisiana Elephante and Beverly Tapinski. Then her father will see her picture in the paper and be so proud he’ll come home. Raymie believes if she can learn to twirl a baton, she can win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire contest. ![]() Ten-year-old Raymie Clark’s father, an insurance agent, has just run off with a dental hygienist. ![]()
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