Karate Katie by Nancy Krulik

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

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“I mean, it’s great that she’ll be able to talk again after her tonsils come out,” Katie said. “You know how Suzanne loves to talk.”

“Almost as much as I love to eat,” Mr. Carew laughed. “Can I have some more lasagna, please?”

Katie giggled. Then she took a big bite of her own lasagna. Suddenly, she was hungry, too.

Chapter 7

“Pass five basil leaves, please,” Becky Stern said.

“Here you go,” Mandy Banks replied as she passed a bowl of fresh basil leaves across the counter in Katie’s kitchen.

“Mmm . . .” Katie’s mother sniffed at the air as she stirred the tomato sauce that was cooking in a pot on the stove. “I’m so glad you kids formed a cooking club. My house always smells so good on Saturdays.”

“And we always eat well on Saturdays,” George told her. “This tomato sauce is going to be awesome!”

“I know,” Katie said. She looked down at her cookbook. “We need to grind some fresh pepper.”

Woof! Woof! Katie’s dog barked at the sound of his name.

“No, silly,” Katie giggled. “Not you.”

“I can’t believe Kevin is missing the cooking club meeting when we’re making tomato sauce,” Emma W. said as she peeled the skin from a juicy red tomato.

“He’s probably practicing karate today,” Jeremy said. “Karate’s more important to him than anything.”

“Even tomatoes?” Emma asked. She didn’t sound so sure. Kevin loved tomatoes.

“Maybe Kevin just didn’t want to be around us,” Katie said quietly.

“Oh, come on. We’re the ones who don’t want to be around him,” George replied.

“That’s what I mean,” Katie told him.

“Huh?” George asked.

“We were all kind of rotten to Kevin yesterday,” Katie admitted.

“No way. He was rotten to us! He made us lose the soccer game! And he made me lose the relay race,” George insisted.

Katie knew that it was George’s loose shoelace that had made him lose that race. She also knew that having a different goalie wouldn’t make a soccer team lose by six points. But she wasn’t going to tell George that. He’d just argue with her about it anyway.

“Maybe we were all wrong,” Katie said finally.

“We were kind of mean,” Emma W. agreed.

“I guess we didn’t have to keep calling him Karate Kevin,” Jeremy added.

“He didn’t have to keep bragging about being so strong,” George argued back.

“Or being better than everyone else in his karate class,” Becky said.

“No, he didn’t. But we’ve all bragged before,” Katie said. She turned to Becky. “Do you remember when you learned to do that backflip in gymnastics class? You talked about that for weeks.”

Becky blushed. “Well, how about that time you taught Pepper how to roll over? All you kept saying was how smart your dog was.”

“That’s what I’m talking about,” Katie agreed. “We all brag sometimes.”

“Maybe I’ll stop by that tournament after my soccer game tomorrow,” Jeremy said slowly. “You know, to cheer Kevin on.”

“I think I’ll go, too,” Becky said quickly. “I could meet you there, Jeremy. We can sit together.”

Jeremy blushed.

Katie sighed. Poor Jeremy. Becky was always embarrassing him. She had a huge crush on Jeremy.

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