Aviva vs the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe

Author:Mari Lowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Levine Querido

Chapter 11

“IT’D BE KIND OF LIKE A scavenger hunt,” Kayla explains. “But with dybbuks. We’re going to use Jell-O.”

“Jell-O,” Principal Axelrod says slowly, as though she doesn’t quite follow. “How will the Jell-O help the scavenger hunt?”

I pick up Kayla’s thread. “We’re going to make individual Jell-O cups. Each group is going to get a set of cups with their first clue inside the Jell-O. But one person in each group of cups is also going to get one with a mark on it that means they’re the dybbuk.”

“And the dybbuk is there to sabotage the group. Give them bad advice, work against them—it’s the dybbuk’s job to stop the group from making it to the end. And no one knows who the dybbuk is,” Kayla explains eagerly. “The clues can be taped to games or might even be inside the game, if the arcade will work with us. We have a lot of ideas.”

Principal Axelrod contemplates. “We could arrange a prize for the winning team,” she says slowly. “I think we’d have space in the budget for something substantive.”

Kayla and I exchange glances, astonished. “Does that mean we can do it?” I say. I didn’t really believe Principal Axelrod might agree to it. It’s a grand plan, one that lets us completely restructure the Bas Mitzvah Bash.

Principal Axelrod’s eyes twinkle. “Ordinarily, I might have my doubts,” she says. “But I haven’t seen you two agree on anything in years, let alone be this excited for it. I think this will be a lot of fun for your grade. They’re lucky to have you.”

“Thank you!” I keep saying when we leave Principal Axelrod’s office. “Thank you! We’re going to do this well, I promise!”

It’s been a week since we first met with Principal Axelrod, and the Bas Mitzvah Bash is only two weeks away now. Kayla and I spent the week fine-tuning the idea we had in the mikvah, figuring out what kinds of clues we might use and how we’d work the start of the scavenger hunt.

It was Ema’s idea to use Jell-O, and she’s been more animated than I’ve seen her in a while, searching online for the perfect recipe and little cups for them. Kayla has spent most nights this week at the mikvah with us, planning in between the rare visitor. The three of us have been working out different clues, putting them together and making them into rhyming couplets.

We’ve even been talking in school now, glued together like we were back in second grade. “We have so much to do,” Kayla says as we exit the office, ticking off each point on her fingers. “First, we have to talk to the arcade and see if they’ll let us come in early to set up.”

“I really love the idea of having some of the clues as high scores,” I say, thinking. It’s probably not possible, not without us spending the whole day at the arcade beforehand setting those high scores, but it’s nice to imagine it. “Or of hiding one inside of a bowling ball.

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