Agatha Parrot and the Odd Street School Ghost by Kjartan Poskitt

Author:Kjartan Poskitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I’ve got just the thing to cheer him up,” said Motley.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of Fishpopz. He dropped a few into the bucket and shoved the rest in his mouth.

“These fishy chews are very nice, by the way,” he said. “We love them, don’t we, Tony?”

“Forget the Fishpopz,” I said. “Mrs. Twelvetrees wants you to come and talk to everybody.”

“Me?” said Motley with his mouth full. “Talk to everybody? Oh, no, I couldn’t do that. What would I say?”

“She wants to know if you were at the school last night.”

“Oh, dear,” said Motley, chewing away. “Oh, deary dear!”

Soon me and Motley were back in the auditorium and he had to go up to the front.

“Aha! There you are, Mr. Motley,” said Mrs. Twelvetrees. “Can you PLEASE tell everybody what you were doing at school last night?”

Poor Motley looked really nervous. He was a bit shy and didn’t like being in front of everyone. He just shook his head.

“Come on, Mr. Motley, we won’t bite you! Tell us what you were doing.”

“I can’t,” said Motley.

“Yes, you can,” said Mrs. T. “Show some gumption!”

“No, I can’t,” said Motley. “I wasn’t at school last night.”

GASP! We all looked at each other.

“He’s lying!” snapped Gwendoline. “A ton of people saw you.”

“How do you know what we saw?” said Martha.

“It was a green face flying around,” said Ivy. “How could that be him?”

Mrs. Twelvetrees raised her hands to make us quiet down, and then she turned to Motley. “Did Mr. Tutt call to tell you to make the bell stop ringing?”

Motley looked uncomfortable. “Yes, but it stopped by itself,” said Motley. “So I wasn’t at school. Nowhere near school. You can’t make me say that I was.”

Gwendoline looked shocked—ha ha!

“There has to be a sensible explanation,” said Mrs. Twelvetrees. “Maybe Miss Barking can tell us what’s going on?”

Miss Barking got a funny look on her face. She opened up her folder and shuffled through all her pieces of paper. “There’s nothing here about ghosts,” said Miss Barking. “And Miss Pingle’s window did close by itself.”

“Humph,” said Mrs. T. again. She came over to where our class was sitting. “Is that the truth?”

None of us wanted to get Ivy into trouble, so we all nodded.

“Well, I’d like to see this ghost for myself,” said Mrs. Twelvetrees. “So why don’t we have a little fun with this? We’ll have a GHOST WATCH! Anybody who wants to help has to write a ghost story, and then we’ll meet here tonight. We’ll tell our stories to bring the ghost out. If there IS a ghost, we’ll see it, and if we don’t see a ghost, then we’ll know there isn’t one. How’s that?”

It was 10/10 UTTERLY AWESOME!

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