Snaggle Doodles by Patricia Reilly Giff

Author:Patricia Reilly Giff [Giff, Patriria Reilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-54677-7
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 1985-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

“We're going to make a tree,” Linda said. “Just like a Christmas tree.”

“This is April,” Matthew said. “Time for baseball.”

“I know,” Linda said. “We're going to call it an April tree. Cut up the box. Hang the balloons on it. The socks…” She looked around, smiling.

Emily kept looking at Harry and Drake. She was shaking her head at the same time.

“I think Jason's group is making a tree,” Matthew said.

They looked toward the front of the room.

Jason's group had a brown stick. They were hanging paper towels all over it.

“How do you know that's a tree?” Linda asked.

Matthew raised his shoulders in the air. “It looks like a toilet paper tree,” he said.

He and Alex poked each other. They started to laugh.

Alex picked up a sock. ‘Two holes in this,” he said.

He poked his fingers through the holes. He wiggled them at Matthew.

“We could make a sock worm,” Matthew said.

They started to laugh again.

“I don't think an April tree is any good,” Emily said.

“Stop fooling around,” Linda told Matthew and Alex. She was frowning.

Alex wiggled his fingers at her.

“Then we'll make a …” Linda began and stopped. “What's Wayne's group making?”

Emily looked toward the side of the room.

Dawn was covering something up.

A bunch of yellow and purple plates stuck together.

“What's that?” Matthew asked.

“Who knows?” Linda said. “But everyone else has started something.”

“We may never think of anything,” Emily said.

“We're the worst,” said Matthew.

“Right,” Emily said. “The worst group in the class.”

“That's because we have the worst people,” Linda said. “Nobody listens.”

“That's because we have the worst leader,” Emily said.

She began to put the invention things in a row. She picked up an iron tool. “I don't even know what this is.”

“You don't know what anything is,” Linda said.

“It's a lock,” said Matthew.

“No,” said Alex. “I think it's food for a sock worm.”

He grabbed the tool. He started to make growling noises.

Just then Ms. Vincent walked by. “Having a little trouble getting started?” she asked.

“We can't think of anything,” said Matthew.

“Inventing is hard,” said Ms. Vincent. She patted Linda's shoulder.

Then she went to the front of the room again.

Emily swallowed.

Too bad Ms. Vincent didn't know that Linda was a bad leader.

Too bad Ms. Vincent didn't know the boys were fooling around.

Emily put her hand in the air. She wouldn't be a tattletale. She'd just ask to go to another group.

Just then Sherri Dent's hand shot up.

Ms. Rooney nodded at her.

“I want to get out of Wayne's group,” Sherri said.

Ms. Rooney frowned. “You're supposed to work together.”

Quickly Emily put her hand down.

“Look how nicely Jason's group is working,” Ms. Rooney said.

Emily looked at Jason's group. They were throwing more paper on the brown stick.

“Snaggle doodles on Jason,” she said under her breath.

Ms. Rooney clapped her hands. “Time for art. We have to stop work for this week.”

Emily went back to her seat.

She looked over at Linda Lorca.

Linda's mouth was wiggling a little.

Emily wondered if she was going to cry.

Maybe it was because no one liked her invention.

Her silly invention.

Or maybe it was because she wasn't a good leader.

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