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.



Okay, so this is the last un-guessed one, and I can’t give any more clues, because I am TIRED. Google it for all I care.
Oh God, yes. Capote. Children On Their Birthdays. (But you knew I knew, didn’t you?)