Miranda and Maude #2: Banana Pants!

Miranda and Maude #2: Banana Pants! — page 1 — For anyone who’s ever had to say sorry

Miranda and Maude #2: Banana Pants! — page 2 — 1 EXTRA-EXTRA EARLY MONDAY MORNING One Monday morning Princess Miranda Rose Lapointsetta went into her classroom 3B at Mountain River Valley Elementary extra-extra early She was there for extra-extra help from her favorite teacher Miss Kinde Before this year Miranda had never been to school She was a princess who lived in a castle castle and had a very old tutor who didn’t teach her much When Madame Cornelia retired Miranda’s parents Queen Mom and King Dad or QM and KD for short made her go to school At first school was terrible It smelled like hard-boiled eggs everything everything was loud and confusing and she always had a headache Worst of all she had no friends But then a bunch of things happened and Miranda became best friends with Maude 1

Miranda and Maude #2: Banana Pants! — page 3 — Brandywine Mayhew Kaye who was absolutely not a princess Once Miranda had a friend and learned she needed glasses she began to enjoy school Things she once hated like music class which was very loud lunch which was very smelly and PE which was a little bit dangerous dangerous were now practically okay because everything everything was better when you had a friend to agree with you about how loud smelly and dangerous things were But right now Miranda’s classroom was not loud or smelly or dangerous 3B was quiet because she was the only student there and it smelled like lavender because that was what Miranda’s beloved teacher Miss Kinde smelled like Miss Kinde was just like her name Kind Wonderful Amazing She was always interested in what Miranda had to say and best of all even though she often reminded Miranda and Maude to stop talking to each other she never switched their seats The only bad thing about Miss Kinde’s class Miranda thought that early Monday morning isn’t about Miss Kinde at all It was about a test 2

Miranda and Maude #2: Banana Pants! — page 4 — A famously awful test called the Mandatory National Reading and Writing and Math Exam which every student had to take at the end of the school year Since the beginning of the year which wasn’t that long ago Miss Kinde had given 3B many many practice exams Because Miranda had never taken the exam before and since Principal Fish thought it was extremely 3

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