Very nice Cindy. I see, too, that you have read to the end of the book before it was assigned. That makes me happy because it means that you enjoyed the story.
This is also a lovely transition helping connect the paragraphs, "Maggie isn't a girl like Peggy, she is poor too."
I will send you more comments via e-mail, but I see you trying out some new things in your writing, like the use of the dash--"but she has a friend--Peggy." That's great. That's how writing works. The writer plays with different kinds of words and punctuation, along with sentence length and word order and choice and figures out what would work best for his or her purpose. To me, that's the real joy of writing, figuring out every time how to get what's in your head on to the page. I see you really thinking here. Nice work. Laraine