Eleanor DeHaai

Eleanor DeHaai was born in India but has lived most of her life in Nebraska. Set in India and elsewhere, the handful of stories she has written range from the humorous to the intense. "Drawing Miss Hiller," while fictional, would not be among the handful had she skipped the fourth grade.

Drawing Miss Hiller

I’m not copying the vocabulary words Miss Hiller squeaked out with her stub of white chalk. Instead, using my crayons, I’m drawing a picture of her inside the back cover of my phonics workbook. I’m going to name it “Hag-face Hiller, the Fourth-Grade Killer.”

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