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After hearing that, everybody started reading with their parents like crazy. Even the sixth graders, who say that reading isn’t cool. Everybody wanted to go to Water World. We reached a million minutes the day before school let out for vacation.
The field trip to Water World was awesome! They had about a hundred giant water slides, and in some of them you slid in the dark with laser beams shooting all over the place. We got to eat as much pizza and ice cream as we wanted.
They also had one of those giant, inflatable moon bounce thingies where you jump around like crazy inside it. After water sliding, eating all that junk food, and bouncing in the moon bounce, I thought I was going to throw up. It was the greatest day of my life.
Me and Ryan and Emily and Andrea and Michael went looking for Mr. Klutz to thank him. We found him standing next to the moon bounce thingy.
“Great party!” I told Mr. Klutz, and we all gave him a big hug. “If you ask me, you’re the greatest principal in the history of the world.”
“Thanks, A.J.!”
“See, you didn’t need to bungee-jump off the school to make us learn,” Andrea said.
“I guess not,” Mr. Klutz said. He was looking up at the moon bounce. “But I was just thinking, if we brought one of these moon bounce things out to the front of the school, and I went up on the roof—”
“No!” we all yelled.
“I wouldn’t even need a bungee cord—”
“No!”
“It’s pretty soft—”
“No!”
I think it’s going to be very hard work helping Mr. Klutz get over this need he has to do nutty things. Maybe by June, if the whole school works together, we might be able to cure him.
But it won’t be easy.
About the Author and the Illustrator
DAN GUTMAN has written many weird books for kids. Dan lives in New Jersey (a very weird place) with his weird wife and two weird children. You can visit him on his weird website at www.dangutman.com
JIM PAILLOT is a talented but weird illustrator who lives in Arizona. He also has a weird wife and two weird children. Isn’t that weird? You can visit him on his weird website at www.jimpaillot.com
Credits
Cover art © 2004 by Jim Paillot
Cover art © 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.