Scene: Harriet�s dinner table.

Harriet: So AJ, what were you and The Girl Next Door and B. [her brother] playing outside with the flashlights.

AJ: Well, actually, TGND went home and B. and I were playing a really fun game called Non-Friction.

Harriet: Non-friction? How do you play that?

AJ: Well, you need there to be melty snow. And then you just pretend there�s no friction and there are two invisible walls, one at the exit and one at the entrance to our house [he means the driveway, which is U-shaped] and you slide into them sometimes.

Harriet: That sounds like fun.

Mr. Spy: Who came up with that name? Because it�s kind of a joke.

AJ: Me.

Mr. Spy: Because there�s a kind of book that�s called non-fiction

AJ: (giggles) Yeah. And Non-friction is non-fiction!

Harriet: You�re right!

AJ: But friction isn�t fiction.

Mr. Spy: That sounds like a good name for a book. Maybe you should write a book with me.

AJ: It will have to be non-friction.

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