The Contagious Colors of Mumpley Middle School by Fowler DeWitt

Author:Fowler DeWitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

III.

Wilmer’s hands trembled as he lowered an eyedropper into the SugarBUZZZZ!-laced liquid. He then removed Ernie’s glowing green tissue from last week. He carefully squeezed the dropper, and one blue-tinted MilkBUZZZZ! droplet dripped out. Wilmer was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, or more accurately, a MilkBUZZZZ! drop as it plopped onto the tissue.

The tissue glowed a brief but radiant bright lime. Excited, Wilmer dropped another drop onto the tissue.

The formula blinked and then glowed so brilliantly Wilmer had to cover his eyes. The green spread throughout the tissue all the way to its edges!

Wilmer bubbled with excitement, even more than the specimen on his desk was bubbling. Now he was onto something. This could be the breakthrough he had hoped for. He slid over the microscope he had borrowed from class. He put Ernie’s tissue under the lens and peered through the eyepiece.

Amazing! Small and spiky bright blue molecules of blueberry-colored MilkBUZZZZ! swam alongside large, fuzzy, oddly shaped green-glowing ones. Those must be Ernie’s nasal mucus germs. They were shaped sort of like Mr. Dooley—tall, thin, and slightly stooped. But wait. The tall green molecules were eating the blue ones! Every time a blue molecule bumped against a green one, the green molecule devoured it and rapidly ballooned.

Wilmer stared in astonishment.

After eating, these new compounds quickly flickered from blue to green to red and then purple. Some then appeared to burp. The entire formula fizzed and snapped. The process repeated itself over and over and over again, until the Mr. Dooley–shaped molecules had consumed every last spiky blue molecule.

It was the breakthrough Wilmer needed. This process must be repeating itself every time anyone ate or drank something with SugarBUZZZZ! Those odd Mr. Dooley–shaped germs were harmless inside each kid until they came into contact with SugarBUZZZZ! and then bam! Those green bacteria swallowed it as eagerly as Sherman did his Halloween candy.

But where did those fuzzy green germs come from in the first place?

And—Wilmer gulped three times in a row—what would happen if word about SugarBUZZZZ! leaked out?

Unless Wilmer found a cure, his father could be disgraced and his career ruined. No one would care about his new invention. SugarBUZZZZ! was feeding the plague! Who would trust anything from the man who turned Mumpley Middle School into a blinking rainbow of hyperactivity?

He had to be sure about his theory before he could make his next move. “Sherman!” cried Wilmer, opening his door. “Come quick!” Sherman bounded up the steps two at a time.

“I was busy running around the table,” said Sherman.

“You can do that later. I need your help. Here! Drink this!” Wilmer handed him the giant glass of Blueberry MilkBUZZZZ!

“Hey, that’s mine!” said Sherman, yanking the glass from Wilmer’s hand and drinking its entire contents in one extended gulp.

The reaction was immediate. Sherman’s ears flashed blue, blinking from baby blue to an electric blue to teal. But that was nothing compared with the surge of manic energy that hit Sherman like a runaway locomotive. He immediately

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