1 Things I Wrote About When I Was Eight

Stella Batts Broken Birthday Courtney Sheinmel

《斯特拉·巴茨 搞砸的生日》 考特妮·沙因梅尔

CHAPTER 1 Things I Wrote About When I Was Eight Hi, it's Stella Batts again! I've written nine books since I turned eight years old. That's because a lot of things happened to me that I wanted to write about, such as: 1. Joshua in my class started calling me Smella, so I changed my name. But then I changed it back again. 2. I taste-tested magic gum, which was fun.

第一章 我八岁时写过的事儿 嗨，我又是斯特拉·巴茨啦！ 自从满八岁之后，我已经写了九本小书了。 因为我碰到了好多想写下来的事儿，比如：1. 我们班的约书亚总叫我臭臭拉，所以我改了名字。 不过后来我又改回去啦。 2. 我试吃了魔法口香糖，可好玩了。

But then I got it stuck in my hair, which was NOT fun at all. Plus, my best friend Willa moved away, which was the most not-fun thing ever. 3. But I got a new best friend, named Evie, who moved here from London. She has a cool accent. 4. My baby brother, Marco, was born. 5. I got to babysit Evie's dog, and I lost it! Luckily, my sister, Penny, helped find it. 6. Penny and I were flower girls, we got a new uncle and a new cousin, and we all went swimming in our flower-girl dresses! 7. My friend Lucy and I made a secret news- paper. I wrote about the secret new Candy Carnival at our store, Batts Confections. (It's not a secret anymore.) 8. I got to be on my favorite show in the whole entire world, called Superstar Sam.

可后来口香糖粘在我头发上了，一点儿都不好玩。 还有，我最好的朋友薇拉搬家走了，这是史上最不好玩的事儿。 3. 不过我交到了新的好朋友，她叫伊维，从伦敦搬来这里。 她说话的口音超酷。 4. 我的小弟弟马尔科出生了。 5. 我帮伊维照看狗狗，结果把它弄丢了！ 幸运的是，我姐姐佩妮帮我找到了它。 6. 我和佩妮当花童，我们多了新叔叔和新表妹，之后我们还穿着花童礼服一起去游泳啦！ 7. 我和朋友露西办了一份秘密报纸。 我写了我们家巴茨糖果店新办的秘密糖果嘉年华。 （现在它已经不是秘密啦。）8. 我上了全世界我最喜欢的节目《巨星萨姆》。

9. I slept over in my school library. In this book I'm going to write about the amazing trip my family and I are about to take. And guess what? By the time I finish this book, the other thing that will have happened is I will have turned NINE YEARS OLD!

9. 我在学校图书馆过夜了。 这本书里，我要写写我和家人即将开启的奇妙旅行。 你猜怎么着？ 等我写完这本书，另一件大事就要发生啦——我就要满九岁啦！