Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips by Debbie Dadey

Author:Debbie Dadey [Marcia Thornton Jones and Debra S. Dadey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2021-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Melody lifted her face out of the grass. “I tripped over a stupid tree root,” she said.

Howie grabbed an arm to pull her up. “Are you okay?”

“I’m all right.” Melody sat up. “But I’m afraid these Doodle Burgers are squished. They’re flatter than a rattlesnake run over by a two-ton semi-truck.”

“We’ll have to fluff them up a little,” Liza said.

“They’re hamburgers,” Melody said, “not pillows.”

They didn’t see the dark shadow as Howie picked up the smashed bag and headed inside.

“If anybody can fix these burgers, I can,” he said as he dumped the garlic chips on the kitchen table. Then he put the burgers onto a cracked plate and patted them with his hands.

“Maybe she won’t notice,” Liza suggested.

“If you ask me,” Howie told them with a grin, “they look better than they usually do.”

“What’s taking you guys so long?” Eddie asked as he clomped down the stairs. “Aunt Mathilda is starving, and I’m tired of getting beat at poker. By the way, you really had me tricked. I just can’t figure out when you did it.”

“What are you talking about?” Howie asked.

“When you cleaned up the casserole catastrophe,” Eddie said.

His three friends glanced at each other. “We didn’t touch that mess,” Melody said slowly.

“Well, if you didn’t clean it up, and I didn’t clean it up, then who did?” Eddie asked as he turned and grabbed the plate off the counter. “Hey! Who bit the burger?”

His three friends stared at the half-eaten burger. “Not me,” they all said at once.

“Look! Someone’s been eating the garlic chips, too,” Melody said.

“And they’re all over the floor,” Liza said. “What will we tell Aunt Mathilda?”

“No problem,” Eddie said. “We’ll just put them back on the plate. Aunt Mathilda will never know.”

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