Kelsey Green, Reading Queen by Claudia Mills

Author:Claudia Mills
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

“I think a frigate is a ship,” she said, for starters.

“So why didn’t they say ship?”

Kelsey gave up. Some people loved poetry. Some people loved math. But both kinds of people could be friends.

* * *

The next day, counting both the Emily Dickinson poetry book and the Emily Dickinson biography, Kelsey had two new worms. Simon had only one. So he was back to being just three worms ahead.

Kelsey didn’t think she dared count any more poetry books toward her worm total. But how would she ever catch up to Simon? The reading contest would be over in another week!

“I think,” Kelsey said to her friends at lunch, “we’re going to have to do some spying this weekend.”

Izzy’s face lit up. “Bring it on!”

Annika looked pleased, too. “Simon Ellis, your days are numbered!” she said with a cackling chuckle.

Kelsey had a small pang at the thought of what would happen to their class worm total if Simon was caught as a cheater reader. But maybe their class was going to lose to Mr. Thurston’s anyway, despite all of Simon’s possibly bogus worms. And it would be bitter beyond bearing if a cheater’s name was on the library plaque instead of hers. It was going to be awful if his name was on the plaque instead of hers, period.

That evening, Kelsey prepared her spy notebook. In Harriet the Spy, Harriet had a special notebook where she wrote down all her observations about everything in big capital letters. Kelsey had read Harriet the Spy before the reading contest began. It was much too long to be a reading contest book.

Kelsey wrote:

SIMON HAS TWENTY-FOUR WORMS. I HAVE TWENTY-ONE. I WONDER IF SIMON LOVES READING THE WAY EMILY DICKINSON AND I DO OR IF HE JUST LIKES BEING THE BEST AT EVERYTHING. HE IS AS GOOD AT MATH AS ANNIKA. BUT HE ISN’T A FAST RUNNER LIKE IZZY. I HOPE IZZY CAN RUN FAST ENOUGH TOMORROW. I LEARNED FROM HARRIET THE SPY THAT TERRIBLE THINGS CAN HAPPEN IF SPIES GET CAUGHT.

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