by Abby Klein
I grabbed one out of my backpack and sat down on my bed to think. I was about to start writing when I remembered that I really didn’t know how to spell very well.
“SUZIE!” I yelled.
I heard her footsteps in the hall. “What?”
“Can you help me write this letter to the Tooth Fairy? I need you to tell me how to spell the words.”
“What’s in it for me?” Suzie asked.
“I’ll give you my snack money for a whole week.”
“It’s a deal,” she said, and we locked pinkies. “Pinkie swear?” she said.
“Pinkie swear,” I said.
“OK, what do you want to say?”
I wrote the letter, and Suzie told me how to spell the words.
Thanks, Suzie.”
“Sure. Just remember, I get your snack money tomorrow.”
“I remember. Good night.”
“Good night.”
Suzie left the room, and then I carefully folded up the letter and stuck it under my pillow.
“Oh, I hope she comes,” I whispered to my stuffed animals—Bobo, Buster, and Bananas.
CHAPTER 11
The Big Tooth
The next morning when I woke up, I carefully slid my hand under my pillow and felt something cold and round. I threw my pillow on the floor. The note was gone, and there in its place was a big, beautiful, shiny silver dollar!
“Woo-hoo!” I hollered, jumping up and down on my bed. “Today’s my lucky day!”
When I got to school, I ran into the classroom and almost knocked Robbie over.
“Hey, watch it,” he said. “What’s the big hurry?”
I was jumping around yelling, “I’m not the only one! I’m not the only one!”
Mrs. Wushy came over. “My goodness, Freddy, calm down. You almost knocked all our library books on the floor. What are you so excited about?”
“Now I’m not the only one!” I shouted, hugging her.
“What do you mean, ‘not the only one’?” Mrs. Wushy asked.
“Now I’m not the only one who hasn’t lost a tooth. My tooth fell out last night.”
“I didn’t know you had a loose tooth,” said Mrs. Wushy.
“Neither did I,” I said, “but it fell out last night when I was eating ice cream, and I swallowed it!”
“You did?” said Jessie. “Are you OK?”
“Oh yeah. I’m fine.”
“Too bad you didn’t have a tooth for the Tooth Fairy,” said Robbie. “
She came anyway.”
“She did?”
“Yeah. I just wrote her a note, and told her I swallowed it, and she left me a big, shiny silver dollar.”
“Well, congratulations,” Mrs. Wushy said, giving me a hug. “Boys and girls, come to the rug. Freddy lost a tooth last night, so he’s going to sign the Big Tooth.”
“Sign the Big Tooth.” Those words were music to my ears. It was finally my turn to sign the Big Tooth. I had waited for this day for a long time.
I strutted to the front of the room, took the special pen with the smiling tooth from Mrs. Wushy, and signed my name. REALLY BIG.
F-R-E-D-D-Y.
Freddy’s Fun Pages
FREDDY’S
SHARK JOURNAL
There are more than 350 different kinds of sharks in the world.
Most sharks do not hurt people.
My favorite is the thresher shark.
It can grow to be up to 20 feet long.
It eats small fish.
It has a long, powerful tail.
It doesn’t bother people much.
If people knew more about sharks, I don’t think they’d be so scared of them.
They are really very beautiful.
A VERY SILLY STORY
by Freddy Thresher
Help Freddy write a silly story by filling in the blanks
on the next two pages. The description under each
blank tells you what kind of word to use. Don’t read
the story until you have filled in all the blanks!
HELPFUL HINTS:
A verb is an action word (such as run, jump, or hide).
An adjective describes a person, place, or thing
(such as smelly, loud, or blue).
JESSIE’S TOOTH PILLOW
If you want to make a cool tooth pillow
like mine, follow these simple directions.
—Jessie
1. Cut out the patterns on the opposite page. You can trace them on to a piece of paper and then cut the paper. Like Jessie, you can also make them larger.
2. Trace smile shape #1 on to two pieces of red felt.
3.3. Trace smile shape #2 on to a piece of white felt.
4. Glue the white smile on to one of the red smiles.
5. Using a black permanent marker, draw lines on the white smile to make teeth.
6. Cut out a square of black felt the same size as one of the teeth. Put glue on three sides of the black square and glue it on top of the white tooth, leaving it open at the top so it makes a pocket. (This is where you will put the tooth you lost!)
7. Put some stuffing in between the two red smiles and have an adult glue or sew the two pieces together to make a little pillow.
8. Put your tooth inside the pocket, put the tooth pillow next to your head, and wait for the Tooth Fairy!
Freddy has another problem—
a really, really, big problem!
FREDDY THRESHER
almost never has anything cool for show-and-tell, but this time he’s found something amazing. How will he sneak it past his “Neat Freak” mom and bring it to school?
Read all about it in
The King of Show-and-Tell!
And don’t miss Freddy’s hilarious adventures in Homework Hassles. …
Freddy has to write a report on a nocturnal animal. So why not stay up all night and do some outdoor research with his best friend, Robbie? Freddy’s ready for some midnight fun, but nothing turns out the way it’s planned!
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