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Have you ever wanted to be good at something, but you couldn’t figure out how and you just wanted to quit?This is how Lupe Medrano felt in the story “Marble Champ” by Gary Soto.Lupe is good at everything,chess,spelling bees straight A’s,perfect attendance,and she even has her own shelf in her room built for all of her awards that she had won.The only things she had never won at were sports.She tried to beg her body to run as fast as the other girls,but she could never do it.Then one day she wanted to win something to do with sports.Lupe said “I wish I could be good at something,anything, even marbles!”Lupe knew she would have to keep going and never give up because then she would reach her goal and be good at a sport.Lupe would also need
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