Marvellous Mix-Ups by Smith Alexander McCall

Author:Smith, Alexander McCall [Smith, Alexander McCall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408865897
Amazon: B01HI8LQ6S
Goodreads: 32881118
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Published: 2016-09-08T07:00:00+00:00

TEACHER TROUBLE

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First Day at School

Jenny was very tall. She had always been tall, right from the very beginning, and now that she was ten she was almost as tall as most grown-ups, and a good deal taller than some. This was often very useful. She always came first at high jump, and in libraries she was able to reach books from the shelves that nobody else could reach. The best books were always to be found there, she thought.

But there were times when it was certainly a bit of a nuisance being tall. It was sometimes quite difficult to get clothes that were just the right size, and the desks at school often didn’t have quite enough knee room. And then there were occasions when being tall led to quite remarkable things, as happened with the great mistake.

It all started when Jenny had to change schools. Her family had moved to a new town and Jenny and her brother had to go to new schools. Her brother was older than she was, and so he was to go to one school while she was to go to another. Jenny, in fact, had a choice of two schools.

The schools wrote to her mother and sent their brochures. Each had a picture on the front page and inside you could read about what the schools were like. There was nothing particularly unusual about these schools, but there was a very curious thing about their names. One was called the Pond Street School and the other was called Street Pond School. This was very strange, as they were not far from one another and Jenny thought that it must have led to lots of mix-ups.

And she was right. There had been lots of confusion. For example, the mail for the principal of Street Pond School often went to the principal of Pond Street School, and the other way round. Sometimes Pond Street School got a bill which was meant for Street Pond School – and paid it – which meant that when the mistake was discovered, Street Pond School had to pay Pond Street School back.

Sometimes Street Pond School won a competition, but the papers announced that Pond Street School had won. This made Street Pond School furious, and there would have to be an announcement in the papers that Pond Street School hadn’t won anything at all, which made Pond Street School furious – because they sometimes won things anyway. So it was all very confusing.

Jenny could not make up her mind which school she preferred, and so her mother chose for her and Jenny agreed with the choice.

“Pond Street School looks fine,” said her mother. “I think you should go to that one.”

Jenny agreed. The name sounded quite nice and she was sure that she would make new friends there.

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