The Sheila Variations

Un-guessed quote # 4

Here is this one.
Basically, what we have come to is that this is a short story by Truman Capote - which is (or was) in the junior high school literature curriculum.

It involves a group of kids in a little Southern town (of course) - and there's a girl who comes to town who (if I recall correctly) is very different, and bossy - and I believe she wears tap shoes, and thinks she is going to be a film star. The narrator of the story is a small boy with fairy tendencies (naturally).

And it ends with this weird little girl getting run over by the 6 o'clock bus.