Brain Blast by Susan Berran

Author:Susan Berran
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enslow Publishing LLC
Published: 2021-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Toffee Thomas is the world champion of nose pickers. Every single day at school he uses every single finger of both hands to zip in and out of his nostrils at lightning speed. He even uses his pinkie fingers. He’s actually pretty amazing to watch. It’s as if he’s conducting an orchestra, or playing the piano, but the keys are up his nostrils. And he must get at least a bowl full of snot out each day.

Jared and I think if he falls over in soccer, or even just lightly bumps his head, his brain is going to smash into a bazillion bits because it won’t have any brain-booga protection at all.

The other morning, Crabby Abbey was sitting next to Thomas in math class and Mr. Haych stomped in the door and slapped a surprise test on our desks. With only two seconds left before we had to start, Abbey threw her arm up in the air and complained, “My pencil broke.” In a flash, Thomas threw out his arm in her direction. “Here you are,” he said, offering her his spare pencil. Abbey was so focused on the test paper in front of her that without thinking, she reached out and took the pencil from Toffee’s hand – well, she tried to.

The moment she grabbed it, she realized what she’d done, but it was too late. A massive green elastic booga stretched between her hand and Toffee’s as she pulled the pencil toward her. With a look of absolute shock and horror, she sat there with the pencil right in front of her face. Her eyes slowly followed the line of snot from the pencil all the way back to Toffee’s hand.

“Eeeeee!”Abbey let out one of her earpiercing screams that only dogs and aliens can hear. In the blink of an eye, her hand opened wide to let go of the gross pencil. But it didn’t move. Her hand now resembled a slimy, webbed sea monster’s paw. Abbey went into total, full-scale meltdown. She was so furious and grossed out that she was trying to throw up at the same time as trying to rip Toffee’s head off, slap it around, and kick it to the moon!

Abbey was shaking her hand around like some sort of crazy mechanical flyswatter, desperately trying to get the pencil off her one hand without touching it with the other. But like a snot boomerang, every time Abbey shook her hand downward the pencil went flying out of her hand, back along the snot-line toward Toffee, and then twang, shot back toward her again. Over and over, she shook her hand trying to dislodge the pencil. Every time, it flew a little further, but it always returned to her hand. It looked like she was trying to do a magic trick – just not a very good one!

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