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Can you get what you want?

Can you get what you want?

A better grade or a bigger allowance—it all depends on how well you negotiate.
by Francesca Delbanco

digital illustration by: Mel Lejano-Manasan

  1. Your piggy bank is awfully empty these days. You're about due for a cost-of-living adjustment—that is, a raise in allowance. You
  2. You're planning to meet with your study group before the French test. When it's time to divvy up topics to prepare in advance, you
  3. You and your sister seem to be on the same Internet schedule: Whenever one of you is e-mailing friends, the other gets a desperate urge to Yahoo! You
  4. Elections are coming up for Junior Prom Committee, and you’ve got more theme ideas than the mall has taffeta dresses. Your campaign strategy is to
  5. Your grandparents' idea of a perfect birthday present is a long-sleeved flannel nightgown very ruffled and very heavy. You
  6. Mrs. Gatmaitan, your English teacher, is famous for her tough grading, but the time she went overboard. You
  7. On Friday night you and your kid brother agree to chill out and rent a movie. You scan the new releases and then
  8. You sang your heart out at auditions for a West Side Story. But when the cast list was posted, your name was nowhere in sight. You
  9. Your crush's birthday bash is this Saturday, and your Mom is treating you like Cinderalla: home by midnight or you'll be driving a pumpkin around town. When you hear this threat, you
  10. You're usually the first one out of the locker room for gym class. But you hate the swimming unit. You tell your teacher that
  11. Your parents have invited Lola Estella over for dinner on the same night as your best friend's sleepover. You
  12. The dress code at your school is ancient, and by the end of freshman year you're so over the checkered skit thing. You

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