The Possum Always Rings Twice by Bruce Hale

Author:Bruce Hale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Some kids nodded. “Yeah,” said a seagull. “So?”

I waved my hands. “So if I’m elected president, I’ll do something about it. No more boring subjects. History, gone! Math, gone!”

The students cheered.

“But I like math,” whined a ferret. Her neighbors shushed her.

“We’ll get back to the basics,” I said, “like comic book reading, and ultimate Frisbee, and bungee jumping.”

“Yeah!” shouted Bo Newt from the back of the mob.

I was on a roll, pumping my fist in the air. “All recesses will last an hour, and the fountains will run with soda and chocolate milk. Pizza day, every day!”

Several lizards up front started chanting, “Ge-cko, Ge-cko!”

My plan was working. A rush of power swept through me. So this was what the politics racket was all about.

I smiled and raised my arms. Victory was in the air.

Just then, a wedge of furry bodies came slamming into the crowd, and everything went to heck in a handbasket.

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