Book-A-Day 33

Have you ever been told you look just like your mother or father?  Well, Ricky was always told he looked like his mom.  Ricky did not like it one bit.  He was a boy and wished he looked like his father.  At school, students were getting costumes for a play.  Ricky didn't want any of the costumes...until his teacher showed him a mustache.  He had to have it.  With a mustache, he would look just like his father.  Ricky wore the mustache home from school.  Only when he got home, the mustache was gone!  How could he face his teacher when he had lost the mustache?  What would he do?  The book Big Bushy Mustache by Gary Soto is about wishing of being more like someone else.  In this book, it was to be more like his dad.  #BookADay33