DROP EVERYTHING Boring Boring Boring Boring Bean turned her book upside down and tried to read it that way Cool Well sort of cool No Boring Bean sighed and turned her book back right side up It was a book about cats that she had picked from the school library There was a different cat on each page Bean liked cats but reading about them was driving her crazy All the cats looked the same except the sphynx cat who didn’t have any fur He looked halfway between a dog and a rat Bean liked him the best
I bet Ivy’s never seen a sphynx cat thought Bean She knew she wasn’t supposed to talk during Drop Everything and Read so she poked Ivy in the ribs Ivy’s eyes were binging across the pages of her book Bing bing bing She looked like she was watching a Ping-Pong game She didn’t even notice Bean So Bean poked her again Hey she whis pered Earth to Ivy 8
Hmm Ivy mumbled Looky here It’s a dog-rat Bean whispered whispered louder Ivy looked for a little tiny second Oh she said and went back to reading Bean sighed again All the other kids in Ms Aruba-Tate’s second-grade classroom were bent over their books Even Eric who usually fell out of his chair two or three times during Drop Everything and Read 9
