Quinny & Hopper by Adriana Brad Schanen

Author:Adriana Brad Schanen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4847-0764-7
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Published: 2015-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

The next morning I persuade Daddy to take me shopping for back-to-school supplies.

“Can we ask Hopper to come, too?”

“Quinny, please.”

Unfortunately we do have to take Piper and Cleo along because Mom’s working. Piper’s extra crabby since she has to wear clothes out in public. Cleo’s extra gassy since she ate a green bean smoothie for breakfast. I’m squished between the two of them in the backseat as Daddy drives us to a big, giant school-supply supermarket two towns away.

This place has a parking lot and sliding glass doors and shopping carts, just like the grocery store, but instead of apples and cereal and two-percent low-fat milk, the aisles are filled with pencils and notebooks and folders. (The store also has grown-up school supplies, which are called office supplies.)

I get a twelve-pack of pencils plus three folders plus a ruler plus a big thing of glue sticks.

“Quinny, do you want a notebook with flowers on the cover, or hearts?” asks Daddy.

“I’d like a notebook with a chicken on the cover, please.”

But they don’t have any here. They do have erasers that look like tiny burgers and fries. Those look like they work much better than the basic rectangle kind.

Then I push our cart past a big pile of backpacks. “Hey, I need a new backpack, too!”

“Indoor voice, Quinny,” says Daddy.

“Remember how my backpack got ripped last year back in New York when it got stuck in the subway door that time we were running late for school and—”

“How could I forget?”

But the only backpacks in this store are plain blue or plain brown or plain red.

“My favorite color is green with orange polka dots.”

“Really? I hadn’t heard,” Daddy says.

“If we can’t find green with orange polka dots, I also love orange with green polka dots.”

“That’s good to know, Quinny. We’ll keep looking.”

We turn into the next aisle, and then I see something that is even more exciting than school supplies. It’s a big, blank bright-white poster board. Big enough for someone to draw a life-size picture of Mr. McSoren on it…which I’m sure Hopper can do since he’s an artistic genius. Then we’ll put his big drawing of Mr. McSoren right inside my kitchen and leave the door open so Freya sees it, and she’ll be so excited to see him again that she’ll hop inside, and then we’ll sneak up on her with the net and finally—

“Quinny? Hello, earth to Quinny?” Daddy looks down at me. “Let’s keep moving.”

“Oh, Daddy, I just have to get this poster board! Please? Freya’s life depends on it.”

Daddy sighs.

We get in line to pay. Piper begs for candy by the cash register. Cleo grabs candy without begging. When Daddy takes it away from her, she cries so hard that the tuba in her diaper plays a fart again. We make a big mess and a big ruckus and a big stink in that store, and people stare big-time.

“This is why you should have left them at home,” I tell Daddy as I plug my nose.

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