Growing Up Daisy Book 4 Daisy’s Fall Festival By Marci Peschke Illustrated by M.H. Pilz Magic Wagon
1 Our Teacher Is a Witch Daisy Martinez grabbed her best friend Blanca’s arm and said Oooh I just love the Fall Festival I love wearing costumes playing games and eating candy apples What do you think our class should do for a booth at the festival She pointed at the sign in the hall at Townsend Elementary In big orange letters it read Annual Fall Festival Fun For Everyone I don’t know yet Blanca said but I’m sure we’ll think of something It has to be better than Madison’s idea Daisy said Just then the warning bell rang Daisy and Blanca ran down the hall to room 210 They didn’t want to be late for class 4
The two girls stepped inside room 210 Ms Lilly was wearing a long black dress Her curly black hair looked wild and she had on some extremely pointy black boots When she turned around Daisy nearly jumped Her teacher’s face was green in celebration of Halloween Since their visit to see the King Tut exhibit at the museum Daisy’s class had spent the past fi ve weeks studying holidays First it was the Chinese New Year then Valentine’s Day after that St Patrick’s Day next Cinco de Mayo and fi nally Fourth of July As usual Ms Lilly made everything so much fun Her class spent hours learning about the Chinese calendar Daisy was born in the Year of the Ox And Ms Lilly got Ms Pearl the cafeteria manager to let them make fortune cookies in the school kitchen Min taught Daisy and Blanca how to use chopsticks for their report For each of the holidays they had learned the history culture 5
