The Clarence Uh-Oh-Eek-Oops-Yikes Book by Brian Elling

Author:Brian Elling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2016-09-22T12:55:10+00:00

Clarence, Jeff, and Sumo burst through the front door. Chad was on the couch, reading a magazine. “So how was school today, little man?”

Clarence was so excited! “It was so good. Nature Kate came to class and told us that animals can do all kinds of things people can’t. Like sleep upside down, glow in the dark, or read minds.”

Sumo hopped onto the couch right next to Chad. “And then we found this!” Sumo shoved an old plastic water bottle into Chad’s face. Inside the bottle was . . . an inchworm.

“Oh cool! An inchworm,” said Chad. “Actually, its real name is Alsophila pometaria,” quipped Jeff.

Chad stared at Jeff. “If you say so.”

Clarence ran over to Chad. “Can I keep him? Can I keep him? Please, please! I’ll do anything, even if it’s horrible like wash dishes, mow the lawn, or flush the toilet.”

“Sure,” Chad said. “You can do anything you want if you set your mind to it.”

“Awesome! I’m going to name him Inchy!” Clarence squealed.

Clarence, Sumo, and Jeff ran into Clarence’s room and put the bottle on his desk. The worm sat at the bottom of the bottle, doing nothing.

Sumo stared into the bottle. “Now what?”

Clarence stared at Inchy, too. “We could have a staring contest.” Clarence leaned in and stared at the inchworm. Inchy stared back with his twelve black eyes. Clarence stared with his two eyes. “Okay, Inchy. Whoever blinks first loses! Go!”

They stared at each other. It was intense!

“Clarence, if you’re going to have a pet, you have to know how to take care of it,” Jeff said, squatting on the floor and pulling some books from his backpack. “Fortunately, I have my biology textbook with me.”

“I hope we learn that he’s poisonous!” Sumo added.

Clarence finally blinked. “Inchy wins!” Then he ran around the room holding Inchy’s bottle over his head victoriously. “Haugghghggh! And the crowd goes wild!”

Jeff flipped through the textbook. He opened up to the chapter on caterpillars. It had all kinds of pictures of caterpillars, inchworms, moths, and butterflies. “It says here inchworms need a lot of room to grow.”

“Uh, okay,” said Clarence. Then he searched through his closet until he found an empty fishbowl. He shook Inchy into the tank and put the fishbowl back on his desk. “Room to grow. Got it!”

Jeff looked up from his textbook and saw that the fishbowl was totally empty. “Clarence, you can’t keep a inchworm alive in a bowl with nothing else.”

“Yeah,” said Sumo. “Caterpillars need stuff to climb on. Like rocks and garbage!”

Clarence dug around in his toy chest. “Or dinosaurs?” He dumped some plastic dinosaurs in the tank. Inchy climbed up a toy T. rex.

Sumo was impressed. “Good boy, Inchy!”

Jeff flipped through the textbook. “And it says here that inchworms eat leaves.”

CRACK! Sumo reached out the window and yanked a huge branch off the tree and dumped it in the tank. “Done! What else?”

“And, of course, all living things need water,” read Jeff.

Clarence ran to his bed. “I have an emergency juice box under my pillow!” He pulled the juice box out and stuffed it in the tank.

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