Fourth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli & Jerry Spinelli

Author:Jerry Spinelli & Jerry Spinelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 1991-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

When we woke up Saturday morning, I said, “Okay.”

He rubbed sleepies from his eyes. “Okay what?”

“What do I do?”

He sat up. “You’re ready to be a rat?”

I shrugged. “I guess so. But I don’t think I know how. It doesn’t come natural to me.”

“No sweat,” he said. “We just do what all beginners do.”

“What’s that?”

“Practice.”

We headed for my house. Training camp.

Joey was my coach.

“First,” he said, “that crybaby stuff. Gotta go.”

“How?” I said.

“You still have your E.T., don’t you?”

“Sure.” My parents had given me the videotape movie for my birthday.

“I’ll bet you start bawling every time E.T. dies, don’t you?”

“Well …”

“Follow me.”

We stuck my E.T. cassette in our VCR and ran it FAST FORWARD to where E.T. dies, or everybody thinks he dies.

As usual, the waterworks came on. My eyes, my cheeks were like Niagara Falls.

Joey punched REWIND, STOP, PLAY. E.T. died again. I cried again.

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