Katharine the Almost Great: The Ding Dong Ditch-a-Roo
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 pg 5 An Invisible Man CHAPTER 2 pg 13 A Shadowy Figure CHAPTER 3 pg 23 Zapped CHAPTER 4 pg 33 Midnight Madness CHAPTER 5 pg 43 Circus Circuits CHAPTER 6 pg 53 A Ding Dong Dud CHAPTER 7 pg 63 An A Apology CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 8 pg 73 The Long and SHORT of It
chapter 1 An Invisible Man Did you hear that I opened the door and looked up and down the block I don’t see anyone I held out my hand Only rain Drippy droppy rain Crockett was playing with Jack The bell didn’t ring You’re hearing things I’m not hearing things I said and picked Jack up off the fl oor You heard the bell didn’t you Jack planted an icky lick kiss on my cheek It smelled like Toasty Os 5
I wiped off the gunk It gave me gross-a-rama slobber drama I put my fi nger in my ear and wiggle jiggled the inside Dr Cho said I have 20 20 hearing Crockett didn’t believe me Are you sure she said 20 20 hearing Positive I said Positively positive Crockett laughed You can’t have 20 20 hearing It’s 20 20 vision He raised his eyebrows What about the whole Jackula thing Remember How could I forget I thought Mom said Jack was getting a coffi n but it turned out she had said he had been coughing I wrinkled my nose Maybe Crockett was right I did get things mixed up a lot Maybe that’s why my parents call me Katharine the Almost Great Maybe if my hearing gets better they’ll fi nally call me Katharine the Great 6
