a really new school An Up2U Action Adventure By Jan Fields Illustrated by Vivienne To
SCARED Ana shrugged out of her tan jacket and hung it on the peg in the narrow locker She hung her tan backpack on the peg above the jacket Once everything was hung up she put her brown paper lunch bag on the floor of the locker Each item looked and sat exactly according to the rules All up and down the row of lockers other kids did exactly the same thing in exactly the same way The strange thing was that none of the lockers had doors And none had any personal touches or decorations Everything looked exactly the same Our lockers don’t need doors Principal Carson had told Ana when she asked Students here have no secrets
But what if someone walks off with my jacket or my lunch Ana asked The principal looked startled Stealing is against the rules he declared Middlehurst Elementary School had a lot of rules And everyone followed them It was very strange Ana’s parents thought the new school was great You’ve never had a problem with rules her dad said I don’t think that will be a problem at this school And just think class time won’t be wasted on the kids who goof off That was true But it was also a little spooky Each day seemed stranger and stranger No one passed notes No one kicked the back of her seat No one whispered Everyone sat up straight in their seats and stared at the teacher In the month Ana had been in school no one teased her No one pushed her No one
