Frankenweenie by Elizabeth Rudnick

Author:Elizabeth Rudnick [Rudnick, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Chapter Book
ISBN: 9781423179207
Publisher: Disney Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

he next day Mr. Rzykruski’s students filed into class and took their seats. Just before the bell rang, the school’s gym teacher walked in. Boys and girls began to murmur in confusion. Taking a place in front of the desk, she waited for the class to quiet down.

Victor raised his hand. “Where’s Mr. Rzykruski?” he asked.

“He’s not here today,” the gym teacher answered.

“Is he coming back?” Toshiaki asked.

The gym teacher shrugged. “All I know is, I’ll be teaching the class for the rest of the semester.” She turned and began to erase the messy blackboard. Behind her the kids exchanged confused glances and began to whisper to one another. What was going on? What had happened last night at the assembly?

“Do you know anything about science?” Elsa finally questioned.

“I know more than you do,” the teacher replied, giving her a look that said “stop bugging me.”

“Mr. Rzykruski knew a lot,” Bob said. He felt partly responsible for the gym teacher’s presence. But he wasn’t about to admit that he had gotten Mr. Rzykruski in trouble.

The gym teacher was getting annoyed with all the questions. She was here to do her job. She would much rather be preparing a game of kick ball or practicing drills on the soccer field. “Well, sometimes knowing too much is the problem,” she finally responded, her voice chilly.

For a moment, no one said anything. But everyone was thinking about the same thing—the science fair. Was it still going to happen?

“Oh, it’s still on,” the gym teacher said when Victor asked. “So get cracking and may the best person win. Also class, besides death rays, explosives, and nuclear devices, I’m adding rodents and reptiles to the no-go list.”

With her new rules issued, she began to write the day’s lesson on the blackboard. Behind her, the students were silent. They were beginning to really miss Mr. Rzykruski.

“I can’t believe I broke my arm for nothing,” Bob said later that day. He, Nassor, and Toshiaki were hanging out behind the school. They weren’t happy that the science fair was still going to happen. Without Mr. Rzykruski around, they figured the fair would be cancelled and they wouldn’t have to come up with a project. But now the fair was two days away and they still had nothing.

“None of us are going to win,” Bob went on. “E has an invisible fish!”

Nassor shook his head. “No he doesn’t. You fell for a parlor trick.”

“You’re saying he faked it?” Toshiaki asked. He had been there. He had seen the goldfish shadow on the wall. Could he really have been fooled by E.?

Just then, E came around the corner. Spotting him, the boys walked over and formed a circle around the lone boy. He panicked and tried to get away but there was nowhere to go. He was trapped.

“That fish you showed us, was it real?” Toshiaki asked.

E gulped. “It was!” he cried. “And it was dead, too.” He brought a hand to his mouth. Oops! He wasn’t supposed to have said that.

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