by Rachel Wise
“Sam!” Hailey said, a little too loudly considering we were sitting right next to each other. “What do you think is going on?”
It took me a second to realize what Hailey was talking about. She pointed out her window at the front of our school. A large crowd was gathered.
Then we spotted the police car. This was definitely not a pregame pep rally. I glanced at Hailey, and she looked as nervous as I felt. Why would the police be at a middle school football game?
“You two stay here while I make sure everything’s okay,” Hailey’s dad said.
Hailey and I held hands until her dad waved us over. And then we finally saw what all the commotion was about.
It was Mr. Cougar. His paw was on the ground, smashed into tiny pieces. His body was covered with a spray-painted message: CV—Your Luck Has Run Out. Police were wrapping yellow caution tape around the statue. Lots of people were taking pictures of the vandalized property. It seemed like a scene from a movie, not like something that would happen in our town.
Hailey gasped. “Cherry Valley Middle School is doomed.”
RACHEL WISE loves to give advice. When she’s not editing or writing children’s books, which she does full time at a publisher in New York, she’s reading advice columns in newspapers, magazines, and blogs, and is always sure her advice would be better! Her dream is to someday have her own talk show, where she could share her wisdom with millions of people at once; but for now she’s happy to dole out advice in small portions in Dear Know-It-All books.
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Text by Elizabeth Doyle Carey
Jacket illustrated by James Bernardin
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Designed by Bob Steimle
ISBN 978-1-4424-8792-5 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-4424-8793-2 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-4424-8794-9 (eBook)
Library of Congress Control Number 2013940630
