Mrs. Barr Has Gone Too Far! by Dan Gutman

Author:Dan Gutman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

“Okay, who wants to give the first International Day presentation?” asked Mrs. Barr.

“I do!” shouted Andrea, of course.

“Go ahead, Andrea.”

Andrea rushed up to the front of the room with her notes. She couldn’t wait to show how smart she was.

“I am the queen of Norway,” Andrea said. “My country is in northern Europe. It’s a little bigger than New Mexico. We are one of the largest seafood producers in the world.”

Why is everybody always talking about fish?

“More than five million people live in my country,” Andrea continued. “We speak Norwegian and we have twenty-nine letters in our alphabet. Our capital city is Oslo. Our national animal is the moose, and blah blah blah blah . . .”

What a snoozefest. They shouldn’t call that country Norway. They should call it Boreway! Andrea went on for a million hundred minutes. I wasn’t really listening. I just wanted Andrea to keep talking until dismissal so I wouldn’t have to give a presentation.

“. . . and that’s why we eat reindeer meatballs in Norway.”

“Very good, Andrea!” said Mr. Cooper. “You certainly taught us a lot about Norway. Who wants to go next?”

We all stared at the floor.

“How about you, A.J.?” said Mr. Cooper.

Oh no. Not me.

“A.J.! A.J.! A.J.!” everybody chanted.

I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t know what to do. I had to think fast.

“You did do research on a country, didn’t you?” asked Mrs. Barr.

“Sure I did,” I lied.

I went up to the front of the room. Everybody was staring at me. It was the worst moment of my life.

“Don’t you have any notes, A.J.?” asked Mrs. Barr.

“No, I, uh . . . memorized everything.”

“Impressive!” said Mr. Cooper. “Please begin, A.J.”

“I am the president of . . . Flurgenstan,” I said. It was the first thing I could think of.

“Hmmm, I’ve never heard of Flurgenstan,” said Mrs. Barr. “And I’ve been all over the world.”

“We are a brand-new country,” I explained. “We just started last week.”

“Go on, Mr. President,” said Mr. Cooper.

“Flurgenstan is a beautiful country,” I said, “with lots of trees and animals and, uh . . . food.”

I made up a bunch of stuff about Flurgenstan. I told everybody the national bird is the hummingbird. The national food is chicken tacos. They have a lot of kangaroos and yaks. I just said whatever popped into my mind.

“There are no nerds in Flurgenstan,” I said, looking at Andrea. “And you know how skate parks usually close at sundown? Well, in Flurgenstan they stay open all night.”

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