Say It Ain't So by Josh Berk

Author:Josh Berk [Berk, Josh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-98737-3
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2014-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

The sun wasn’t really setting. Not quite yet anyway. I rode my bike home at a leisurely pace. This time I wasn’t trying to win the Tour de Schwenkfelder. I was trying to get some thinking done. I rode in a winding path, snaking slowly through the quiet streets. I felt just like a detective mulling over a big case. Actually, two cases—only one of which Mike knew about. Was someone from Griffith stealing signs? And was Davis Gannett innocent in the case of the missing cell phone?

I started taking the long way home and realized I wasn’t too far from Griffith Middle School. Schwenkfelder isn’t a very big town. Even though I had to cross one or two major streets, it wasn’t too hard to get to Griffith. I knew the way. Schwenkfelder is the kind of town that has just about two major streets. Everything is not far off those two. One of them is called Center Street. It runs through the center of town. I wonder how Sam Schwenkfelder and the other geniuses who formed this town ever thought up that one. Just kidding. There was no Sam Schwenkfelder. Maybe there was. What do I know? I was pretty sure there was a project on local history every year, but I was quite sure that I never paid attention.

I rode my bike across Center and into Griffith territory. I started to formulate a plan. I felt like a spy sneaking into enemy turf. Of course no one knew I was from Schwenkfelder Middle. And probably no one would really care. But still, it felt dangerous and exciting.

I realized I wasn’t going to see a pair of binoculars hanging on a fence post, but maybe a clue would present itself. The bike ride down Center to Griffith was a lot longer than I remembered it being last time we went that way. Probably because we took a car. Cars make everything seem shorter. But I had all the time in the world, with both Mike and Other Mike busy and the only thing waiting for me at home being homework.

Finally I saw Griffith Middle School. It is a long brick building with about a hundred windows. It actually looks a lot like SMS, which leads me to wonder if all middle schools are designed by the same person. What a weird job that is. They should let middle school students design middle schools. They would be awesome. How hard is it to design a building? I should totally be an architect. You got walls, a floor, some windows. Boom: I’m an architect. Oops, just realized I forgot a roof. Maybe I should stick to announcing.

And to detecting.

I got myself mentally into detective mode as I rode my bike across the parking lot and up the long walkway that went behind the school to the baseball field. I pulled my bike up onto the sidewalk and stood with one foot on the ground and the other on the pedal. I tried to look casual as I scanned the field for hidden spy spots.

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