A Wishbone Come True by Kristin Earhart

Author:Kristin Earhart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Lexi had been so happy playing with Luna that she didn’t remember the puppy’s special trick until late afternoon, while she was talking to Reed.

Lexi was trying to learn all about her new teacher, Mr. Harvey. She had found a letter from Mr. Harvey inside the envelope that had magically flown into Power’s Pets. “He sounds great,” Lexi told her brother.

“Yeah, I had him,” Reed said, “but that was forever ago.”

“Come on, Reed,” Lexi said. “It was only five years ago. You’ve got to remember something.”

“Well, Mr. Harvey’s the best, but he’s not going to like you,” Reed said in a typical, teasing tone.

“Why not?”

“Because he doesn’t like students who do their homework, and raise their hands in class, and volunteer to help.” Lexi’s brother flashed his usual sly smile when he looked at her. “And he hates kids who bite their nails.”

Lexi flinched and yanked her hand away from her mouth. Reed was, of course, describing her. Lexi scowled.

“Most important,” Reed added, “is that he definitely doesn’t like reports on dogs, the kind with lots of interesting canine facts.”

“I don’t think any of that is true,” Lexi insisted. She was sure she remembered that Mr. Harvey had a big Bernese mountain dog. She had seen him walking it on the other side of Castleton. And what teacher didn’t like reports filled with facts?

“Believe what you want.” Reed snorted and pretended to tune his guitar, but Lexi knew the guitar was missing a string. He wasn’t going to play much of anything.

Sometimes it bugged her that her brother was always joking. She could never get a serious answer from him.

Lexi decided to ignore what Reed had said. She had written a lot of reports about dogs, and she wasn’t going to stop now. If Mr. Harvey had them craft an essay on what they did over the summer, she would write about getting Luna. She knew she could write a good story about her fabulous new puppy. That’s when she remembered Luna’s trick.

“Want to see something?” she asked Reed.

He shrugged.

Lexi took that as a yes. She knelt down and called Luna, trying to remember the right commands. The puppy trotted up to Lexi and sat down.

“Luna,” Lexi said, holding up one finger. “Roll over three times.” Then she made three circles in the air.

Luna’s eyebrow whiskers went up, and she quickly got down on her haunches. Without a pause, the puppy rolled over once, twice, and a third time.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.