New glasses

Pearl and Wagner : four eyes

by Kate McMullan ; pictures by R.W. Alley

Its eye-test time at school and, having had trouble reading for a little while, Wagner discovers that he does, in fact, need glasses.  Its not something that Wagner is excited about or ready to accept but his friend Pearl helps to convince him that he should get glasses.  When Wagner wears his new glasses to school for the first time, the school bully teases him by calling him 'four eyes'.  He is determined not to wear his glasses again but Wagner is well liked and respected by his classmates who rally around and come to his defence and start giving themselves even sillier names so that a simple 'four eyes' sounds pretty good by comparison.  Wagner, with the support of Pearl and his classmates, accepts that he really should wear his glasses and, besides, its pretty good to be able to see things properly!

Citation:

McMullan, Kate & Alley, R.W. Pearl and Wagner: four eyes, New York: Dial Books for Young Readers c2010.

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