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A Secret in the Garden Ch 4

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” - Alexander Graham Bell Chapter 4 The Decathlon “Are you nervous, Genny?” Her Russian-American friend, Dasha, whispered as they sat together at the center of the convention hall, waiting for the Junior Decathlon to begin. Genny, Dasha, and the other decathlon members on their team had been preparing for weeks. Only the top students at St. Margaret's Prep School for Girls had been selected to join the competition. Genny looked around the floor of the convention center. There had been at least a dozen other prep schools there that day. Genny was glad that it wasn't the high school decathlon. High school students had to prepare for several subjects including an essay and a speech. Being in junior high, she and her classmates only had to prepare for five subjects: literature, mathematics, history, science, and fine arts. As the top students in their history class, Genny and Dasha had been elected to co-lead in the social studies