The Great Museum Mix-Up~and Other Surprise Endings by Deborah Lytton

Author:Deborah Lytton [Lytton, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2019-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

I am back in the forest, only now I am dressed as Dorothy but with sneakers instead of heels. Sneakers are way more practical footwear for exploring in a forest. Buddy the fox sits in the basket on my arm. I hold a map in my hand that can only be deciphered with the notes in the field guide. Buddy and I sit down by a lake to decode the message. When the moon and stars reflect off the water, I click my silver sneakers, and a unicorn appears. He touches his horn to the page in my notebook, and the code words light up to form a map. When I look up from the map, the unicorn has disappeared.

“We better get this checked out now,” Gram gently reminds me.

“Thank you for your help, Miss Dorothy,” I use her character name instead of her real one. When book people are dressed up as characters, we like to really be the characters.

“Come back to Oz anytime,” she answers with a wink. “I look forward to hearing all about the unicorn exhibit.”

I wave as we head to the main counter to check out the book. I can’t wait to start reading.

• • •

The next morning, I am the first person in line for class. Actually, I am the only person in line for class. It’s raining today, so I am using my white and silver umbrella with wings like Pegasus. My plan is to ask Mrs. Sablinsky about the Lavender Lakewood exhibit before roll call. But sometimes plans don’t go exactly as planned.

Because I have completely forgotten that this is Friday.

Which explains why no one else is in line. On Fridays, the entire school meets in the auditorium where we have our weekly assemblies. I can’t believe I didn’t remember this. I leave my backpack near the classroom door, where it is underneath the edge of the roof, so it won’t get wet. And then I slosh through the puddles and back down the stairs.

Now, instead of being early, I am probably going to be late. I run-walk to make it on time, slip through the door, and put down my umbrella. Mom says when someone uses an umbrella, it’s important to have umbrella courtesy. That means closing your umbrella inside and holding the pointy end down, so you don’t accidentally poke someone.

I guess Will B never learned umbrella courtesy because, instead of holding his closed umbrella with the pointy end down, he is waving it in front of him like a sword. Bryden is doing the exact same thing. Wait a minute, they aren’t just waving the umbrellas like swords—they are fighting with the umbrellas. The two of them clang back and forth and trample all the backpacks on the floor. Then Bryden trips and tumbles over. Will B presses the umbrella against his chest.

Things are about to get dangerous when Principal Snyder lifts the umbrella right out of Will B’s hand. “I will be keeping this until the end of the day.

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