The Slumber Party Secret by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

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Another Note

Nancy got up early Thursday morning. She got dressed and then sat at her desk. All night she had been thinking of a plan. Now she was ready.

She took out a blank piece of paper. At the top, she wrote “IMPORTANT” in big letters.

Then Nancy wrote:

We are the students of Ms. Spencer’s third-grade class. We would like Ms. Spencer to think about doing these things:

• Give us two hours of free time each week to do anything we want.

• Let us have a puppy in the classroom instead of just a pet in a cage.

• Let us read comic books for at least one of our weekly reading reports.

Then Nancy drew twenty-five blank lines at the bottom of the page. One space for each person in her class to sign.

Then she made another copy. It was exactly the same except that Mrs. Apple’s name was on it.

On the way to school she told Rebecca about her plan. They ran into Bess and George in the school hallway. Nancy showed them the two papers.

“Are you nuts?” Bess said. “The teachers will never let us do this stuff.”

“I know,” Nancy said. She gave Bess a huge grin. “I just want to get everyone to sign. That way I’ll see if anyone’s printing matches the note that Rebecca got.”

“And to see if anyone writes with green ink,” Rebecca added.

“Pretty sneaky,” Bess said. She flashed Nancy a smile that said I’m glad my best friend is so super smart!

“But what if some people write their names in cursive,” George asked, “instead of printing them?”

“I thought of that,” Nancy said. “I don’t know about Rebecca’s class. But only one person in our class uses cursive. Phoebe Archer. Her mother taught her last year. Anyway, it’s worth a try. Rebecca’s going to do the list for her class. We’re going to do it at lunch.”

“I’ll help,” Bess said.

“So will I,” George said. “We’ll get everyone to sign.”

Nancy, Bess, and George got twenty kids’ names during lunch and recess. Jessie Shapiro was absent, and Jason had a dentist appointment.

Rebecca got twenty-three names. Amara Shane was absent.

Nancy looked at both lists. All the names were printed except Phoebe’s. None of them looked like the printing on the note. And no one had used green ink.

Nancy was disappointed. But she wasn’t going to give up.

“I have another idea,” Nancy said. “I’m going to check our room before class starts.” She turned and raced back into the school.

Students weren’t allowed to be in the classrooms during lunch hour. Quietly Nancy sneaked into her room. She didn’t touch anything. But she looked at everything lying on top of the desks. No one seemed to have a green pen.

She was just walking out of the classroom when she ran right into her teacher!

“Nancy,” Ms. Spencer said. “Were you looking for me?”

“Ummm . . .” Nancy said.

“Someone told me that you have a petition to give me,” Ms. Spencer said.

Nancy blushed. “Oh, uh, well, not really. I mean, it’s sort of a joke,” Nancy said.

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