“So, here y’all go. There’s a Happy Hamster in this here box for each and every one of y’all!” Angelina’s mother said cheerfully.
“Huh?” said Clementine, “Didn’t we already do this?”
“I don’t get it,” I said. “There is no way I can handle a repeat of this day!”
But luckily this time was different. This time the box didn’t say “Rejects.” This time the only ones shoving and grabbing were Barfalot and his brainless bodyguards. This time Angelina’s mother just handed each of us a cheapo-looking hamster toy that wasn’t much more interesting than the dental floss we got from Marco’s dad the dentist. And this time Miss Toenail was too busy trying to figure out why little bits of blue were all over the place to worry about telling us to be quiet.
“Man! My legs are killing me!” Marco said on our way out of the library. “Why do I feel like I totally just ran a marathon?”
“Believe me,” I said, “you really do not want to know!”
“Sure I do!” Marco said, tossing his Happy Hamster up in the air. “What’s goin’ on?”
“I thought Career Day was just fascinating!” Clementine said, switching the subject. “Didn’t you guys think Career Day was just fascinating?”
“Oh, yeah! Career Day was just fascinating!” I agreed. “Too bad it’s over!”
“I know,” said Clementine. “I am seriously bummed that it’s over!”
“You guys are so different!” laughed Marco.
“Marco,” said Clementine, “you have no idea!”
THE END
(for now)
As an award-winning investigative reporter specializing in extraterrestrial activity, L. Bob Rovetch has spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bob and helping him record his amazing but true adventures. Ms. Rovetch lives across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco with two perfect children and plenty of pets.
Dave Whamond wanted to be a cartoonist ever since he could pick up a crayon. During math classes he would doodle in the margin of his papers. One math teacher warned him, “You’d better spend more time on your math and less time cartooning. You can’t make a living drawing funny pictures.” Today Dave has a syndicated daily comic strip, called Reality Check. Dave has one wife, two kids, one dog and one kidney. They all live together in Calgary, Alberta.
Text © 2007 by Lissa Rovetch.
Illustrations © 2007 by Dave Whamond.
All rights reserved.
Book design by Mary Beth Fiorentino.
Typeset in Clarendon and Agenda.
The illustrations in this book were rendered in ink,
watercolor washes and Prismacolor.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available.
ISBN 978-1-4521-2361-5
Chronicle Books LLC
680 Second Street, San Francisco, California 94107
www.chroniclekids.com
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