Super Surprise by Patricia Reilly Giff

Author:Patricia Reilly Giff [Giff, Patricia Reilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89640-8
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

But there was no time to watch buses and kittens. Even though she loved that orange ice cat.

“Hurry,” she told herself.

She rushed down the stairs.

She was almost flying.

It was a good thing Ms. Katz was still in the library. She wasn’t so happy with kids flying down the stairs.

But saving Ms. Katz was more important than staying on the ground.

Yolanda was on the bottom step.

“I thought and thought,” said Yolanda. “I have an idea.”

“I thought and thought, too,” said Destiny. “And I have an idea, too.” She sank down on the step.

“First,” Yolanda said, “we should tell the whole Afternoon Center about this.”

“Tell Ms. Katz?”

Yolanda shook her head. “Not Ms. Katz. She’d be too sad. And not Jake, either.”

“No, not Jake,” Destiny said.

Destiny looked up at the ceiling. “Maybe it would be better not to tell the grown-ups yet.”

She leaned forward.

She had to talk fast.

Jake would be coming down the hall with his broom any minute.

Destiny could see two ice cream cups, four smushed-up homework papers, and an ant just waiting to be swept up.

“My idea is we’ll ask everyone to write poems,” Destiny said. “Hundreds of poems. Thousands of poems. All about Ms. Katz.”

“Millions,” said Yolanda. She rubbed at her stained shirt.

It must have been through the wash, Destiny thought. She could see only a pale little spot.

Yolanda shook her head. “It’s too bad I’m not a better poet.”

“It’s too bad I’m not a better reader,” said Destiny.

“You don’t have to read,” Yolanda said. “You just have to make up the poems!”

Destiny took a breath. “Hey, I never thought of that.”

They flew into the lunchroom.

Today the snack was fat pretzel rods. Four to a person.

Destiny counted them out.

She made a few mistakes.

“Hey,” Gina said. “I have only three and a half pretzels.”

Destiny whispered in her ear.

“Oh, no!” Gina said. “I’ll start a poem as soon as I finish my snack. It won’t take me long. I don’t have as many pretzels as everyone else.”

Destiny told Mitchell the news and Yolanda told Habib.

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