and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying by Barbara Park

Author:Barbara Park [Park, Barbara]
Format: epub
Tags: Childrens, humour
ISBN: 9780307754837
Goodreads: 9840226
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

’Cause eating is the same thing as stealing, remember?

And teachers aren’t supposed to do stealing! Teachers are supposed to be perfecter than that! ’Cause they have to set a good zample for little children!

After that I felt very sickish inside of my stomach.

On account of Mrs. didn’t even get caught and learn her lesson!

’Cause nobody saw what she did!

Not the store guy.

Not the strange man.

Nobody.

Nobody except for me.

6/Squeezy Lips

I didn’t tattletale on Mrs.

That’s ’cause if I told Mother, I would get in trouble for spying.

And if I told the store guy, Mrs. might go to jail.

And so I just keeped it a secret inside my head.

’Cause nobody can see secrets inside your head.

Not even if they look in your ears.

On Sunday Grandma and Grampa Miller came to our house for dinner. Only I couldn’t talk to them that much.

That’s because secrets are very slippery. And I didn’t want it to slip out of my mouth by accident.

“Why so quiet tonight, Junie B.?” said Grandma Miller at the table. “Cat got your tongue?”

My mouth went wide open.

“What cat, Grandma? Is it the same cat that got killed by the ice cream truck? How come he wants to get my tongue? Did his tongue get squished in the accident?”

Grandma Miller made a face. Then she didn’t eat her roast beef anymore.

Mother looked surprised at me. “You sure did get chatty all of a sudden. Does this mean you’re not mad about the cookies anymore?”

And so then I remembered to stop talking again. Or else my secret might slip out.

I squeezed my lips together very tight.

And guess what else? Even the next day—when I was on the bus to school—my lips still stayed squeezed.

“Hi, Junie B.,” said my bestest friend Grace.

I did a wave at her.

That Grace frowned at me. “How come you’re not saying hi? You have to say hi. It’s the rules.”

Except for I still didn’t say hi.

And so then she called me the name of big stinky.

And when we got to school, that Grace told Lucille I was being a meanie. And so those two played horses all by theirselves.

And not me.

That’s how come I finally had to sing something very loud at them.

“I’VE GOT A SECRET! HA-HAHA-HA-HAAAA-HAAA,” I sang.

That Grace put her hands on her hips.

“So?” she said. “We don’t care. Do we, Lucille?”

Except for just then Lucille runned over to me speedy quick. ’Cause she cared, that’s why.

“If you tell me your secret, I’ll be your best friend,” she said.

“Yeah, only I can’t, Lucille,” I explained. “’Cause if I tell you my secret, Mrs. might get in big trouble. And so I have to keep it inside my head.”

Lucille did a frown at me.

“It’s not good to keep secrets inside your head, Junie B.,” she said. “My brother says keeping secrets inside your head makes pressure in there. And pretty soon your head blows up.”

My eyes got very big at her.

“Oh no!” I hollered real upset.

Then I holded my head real tight with my hands. And I runned my very fastest to the nurse’s office.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.