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• Big things come in small packages by Eleanor E. Tate • Background Eleanora E. Tate was born in Canton, Missouri, and spent her first year of school in a one-room schoolhouse for students in the first through eighth grades. She wrote her first story when she was in the third grade. Tate says she writes books and stories so that all people can read about the proud history and culture of African Americans. I want to tell you about a boy I knew who lived in Moorhead City, North Carolina, some years ago, named Tucker Willis. He lived by Calico Creek, where it narrows down to marsh grass, flounder, and fiddler crabs. It's not far from the backside of the Moorhead City port terminal, where the big ships come in from the Atlantic Ocean. Everybody liked him, and he was good at almost everything he put his hands to. But when Tucker turned 11 or 12, he was still so short he looked like an elf. And you know how it is when you're a little different from other folks, in even some harmless kind of way. Kids called him Tom Thumb, Squirt, Inchworm, Dwarf. I thought Tucker was the cutest little thing in the world. But to him, back then, I was all knock-kneed. Lashonna May, the girl who lived ...