The Holly Joliday by Megan McDonald

Author:Megan McDonald [McDonald, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7636-5860-1
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2007-12-08T05:00:00+00:00

“And now, for our grand finale, the second-graders will perform ‘The Night Before Christmas.’”

“That’s Stink’s class,” said Judy to Rocky and Frank. “Let’s go sit in the audience so we can watch. Mrs. Dempster is reading the poem, and the kids are acting it out. Stink’s the mouse. And his part’s right near the beginning.”

The lights went down. The audience got quiet. The curtain opened.

“’Twas the night before Christmas,” read Mrs. D. in a hushed voice. She was sitting in a big armchair at the front of the stage. A second-grader walked onstage, holding up a cardboard moon attached to a stick.

“When all through the house . . .” Mrs. D. continued. Three more second-graders dragged a cardboard house onstage.

“Not a creature was stirring . . .” read Mrs. D. “Not even a mouse.”

The whole audience got super still. Not a cell phone was sounding, not even a cough.

“Where’s Stink?” Judy whispered. “That’s his line.”

“Not even a mouse,” Mrs. D. read again, a little louder.

“Oh, no!” Judy whispered. “Stink missed his cue!”

The audience fidgeted. Chairs squeaked. Feet shuffled.

“MOUSE!” Mrs. D. said again, practically shouting this time.

“Where is he?” asked Judy. Before Mrs. D. could say mouse again, someone — or something — burst onstage in a flash of white.

Frank Pearl leaned forward, trying to see. “Is that Stink?”

“I thought you said he was a mouse,” Rocky whispered.

“He is,” said Judy. “A bright, white science mouse!”

But when the spotlight found Stink, he was not a science mouse. He was not a mouse at all.

He was a snowflake! A bright, shiny snowflake. Stink was dressed all in white, and strapped to his back was a giant, six-pointed sparkly snowflake. On his T-shirt, in black letters, he’d written STELLAR DENDRITE.

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