Be Nice to Mice by Nancy Krulik

Author:Nancy Krulik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.

Chapter 9

About an hour later, the field was clean. It was time to see which class had picked up the most trash.

“I think it’s easy to see who is going to be eating pizza at lunch after the science fair tomorrow,” Kevin boasted.

Class 4A had filled four bags of garbage. Class 4B had only filled two.

“We want pepperoni on our pizzas,” George told Suzanne. Then he glanced over at Katie. “No, make that half pepperoni and half vegetables.”

Katie smiled gratefully.

Suzanne wasn’t smiling. She hated losing. “You cheated,” she insisted.

“How?” Mandy asked. “We picked up more garbage than you did! What do you think is in those bags? Grass?”

“Suzanne’s right,” Jeremy agreed. “The field wasn’t that dirty. There’s no way you could have collected that much junk.”

“I agree with Jeremy,” Becky said.

“You always agree with Jeremy,” George argued. “You have a crush on him.”

“Shut up, George,” Jeremy said.

Katie frowned. She couldn’t believe what sore losers the kids in Class 4B were being.

“You guys owe us pizza,” George demanded. “And you’re going to get it for us.”

“George, calm down,” Mr. G. said. “It’s just pizza.”

“This isn’t fair!” Suzanne declared again. She kicked at one of the giant garbage bags. It burst open, and some of the garbage began falling out.

“Suzanne,” Ms. Sweet scolded. She handed her another garbage bag. “Please pick up that trash.”

Suzanne frowned, but she took the bag. She knew better than to argue with a teacher—even one as nice as Ms. Sweet.

Everyone stood around watching Suzanne pick up the trash all by herself. A few of the boys began to snicker.

“I’ll help you,” Katie said, feeling sorry for her friend. She bent down and began picking up some of the spilled trash.

“Me too,” Jessica said. She picked up a torn piece of a magazine cover and began to put it in the bag. She stopped as something on the cover caught her eye.

“Kevin, this is addressed to your house,” Jessica remarked. “You’re a litter bug!”

Kevin bit his lip and kicked at the ground.

Suzanne glanced at the piece of notebook paper in her hand. “George, this has your name on it. It’s your spelling test!” She looked down and laughed. “Sixty-three. That’s pretty bad, George.”

George glared at her.

Suzanne began looking more closely at the garbage. “Hey, all of this stuff has Kevin and George’s names and addresses on it,” she said.

Katie stared at the boys in amazement. So that was what they had been hiding in their backpacks!

“This isn’t garbage from the field,” Suzanne told George and Kevin. “It’s from your houses.” Suzanne ran over and started opening up garbage bags.

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