The Nora Notebooks, Book 2 by Claudia Mills

Author:Claudia Mills
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2016-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

During science time on Friday, Nora and Emma sat side by side at one of the classroom computers, trying to figure out which curling irons Emma’s parents should buy for her that weekend. There were so many different kinds! There was something called a curling iron and something else called a curling wand. They had different heat settings—as many as thirty for some of the higher-priced irons. There were different-sized “barrels” to wrap your hair around. Some were made of metal, some of ceramic. They had different voltages.

See? Nora wanted to say to Emma. They use volts!

“Oh, and there’s different stuff to use with them, too,” Emma added happily. “There’s thermal product, and styling spray, and volumizing mousse, and—”

Nora’s head was reeling. It was clear that there were enough different variables here for twenty science-fair projects.

“Are you sure your parents are going to want to spend all this money on these things?” she interrupted. “Some of these curling irons cost over a hundred dollars.”

“Nora,” Emma reminded her, “this is for science. It’s worth spending money for the sake of science, don’t you agree?”

As if Nora would disagree!

From across the room, Nora could hear Brody’s raised voice. “And our dog, Dog? It turns out he loves pieces of buttered toast lying on the ground, butter-side up or butter-side down! It’s his new favorite food!”

Nora could see Sheng busily working away on an experiment for converting potential energy to kinetic energy, while Dunk was busily working away on nothing. Sheng was doing everything, but Dunk would get the same grade and half the credit. It was so unfair. Nora wished Coach Joe would say something, but he was busy helping Amy and Anthony figure out how to graph their birdseed-color results.

“So…,” Emma said, once they had finally picked their four top-choice curling irons for her parents to buy. “About the party tomorrow?”

We can’t have it! Because we need to spend the whole weekend testing these curling irons for the science fair!

Emma went on. “I was thinking it might be too much for you and your sister right now.”

Well, that, too.

“You shouldn’t have to do all that party planning, with a new baby and all,” Emma went on.

Nora felt weak with relief. Lots of time to test out curling irons! No stress with Sarah! Yes, yes, yes!

“So,” Emma said, “I’m volunteering to help.”

“Help?” Nora asked in a strangled voice.

“Like, with the decorations. And the food.”

Nora opened her mouth. No sound came out. But she had to make herself say something!

She finally found her voice. “I think—given everything—that we should—”

“Keep it simple,” Emma finished her sentence. “Totally! Simple is great! So just some pink balloons, especially on the mailbox so that everyone can find your house. And a pink tablecloth for the table. I bet you don’t even have a pink tablecloth. Am I right?”

Emma took Nora’s stunned silence for an affirmative reply.

“I knew it!” Emma said. “Well, I have a pink tablecloth, so you don’t have to worry about that. And my mom

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