Box of Shocks by Chris McMahen

Author:Chris McMahen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV013060
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2011-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

My teacher this year is Mrs. Franzen. She’s one of the most bizarre teachers in the school—maybe in the world. She’s famous for her crazy assignments, like making a sculpture of our favorite character from literature out of recycled pop cans.

But what’s even more bizarre is that the new kid is in my class. Of all the classes in our school he could end up in, he’s in mine! Not even Reggie, Grayson or Karl are in my class, but this kid is. What’s the likelihood of that?

Of course, I don’t like it one little bit. Yeah, I don’t know much about him, but I do know that I can’t stand him for one big reason. This kid is standing between me and my Box of Shocks.

Mrs. Franzen likes to talk. As she babbles on and on and on, my mind drifts. Quite often, I catch myself looking over at the kid. It’s hard to tell anything about the kid from watching him. He never says a word in class, not even to the other kids. Even when Mrs. Franzen asks him a question, he doesn’t open his mouth. She tries to get him to talk, but the best she can get out of him is a mumble that no one can understand.

At lunch, I sit in the lunchroom with Reggie, Karl and Grayson, but I keep glancing over at the new kid while I eat my sandwich. Don’t ask me why. It’s not like he’s the sort of kid I’d ever be friends with.

There is one thing I do notice about him. Crackers. That’s all he eats for lunch. Just crackers!

I love crackers. Today I have a ham sandwich with lettuce, mayo and two kinds of mustard on stone-ground rye bread. I’d love to have just crackers for lunch. So here’s this kid, eating crackers! And that’s all! How great is that? Even though I still think the kid is bizarro, I have to admit he is lucky as far as lunch goes. His parents probably let him make his own lunch.

After he finishes his crackers, he heads outside like the rest of us. While Karl, Grayson, Reggie and I shoot hoops, he leans against the back wall of the school and looks off into space. No one talks to him, and he doesn’t try to talk to anyone else.

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