lurched forward He smacked his head on the seat ahead of him Ouch Malcolm yelped Look out Malcolm Dandy said He watched Malcolm rub the top of his head If only you were a giraffe dude You could have stuck your tongue up to pad your head Good to know Malcolm said He handed over his water bottle And if my best friend wasn’t so weird I wouldn’t have hit my head in the first place He looked out the bus window He saw a roller coaster towering over the trees in the distance A piece was missing from the track What’s that Rosie Main’s head poked over the seat That’s the old Super Funtime Zoo and Theme Park It was terrible 10
Really Malcolm looked at the banged up pieces of roller coaster again But they disappeared from sight as the bus bounced along It looks like fun to me Shows what you know Rosie said She stuck out her tongue and disappeared behind the seat again Finally the tall arched entrance of the Wild Wonderland Animal Rescue Park appeared Malcolm noticed it didn’t have a cool roller coaster But at least they were finally there His day could only get better Right 12
Chapter 2 Snake The The class formed a wobbly line in the parking lot Mrs Goolsby called out rules Stay together Don’t climb the walls Don’t feed the animals Malcolm half listened as he wiped sweat from his face with his sleeve Dandy rooted in his bag and pulled out his bug spray He held up the bottle and pushed the button The bug spray squirted out the back It hit Malcolm in the face Oops sorry Dandy said I was holding it backwards 13