My Best Friend is Extinct Rebecca Wood Barrett illustrated by Cornelia Li Orca Book Publishers
For Oliver and Sarah always ready for an adventure
One Hundreds of icy missiles buzzed overhead I was stuck in the middle Pow pow pow The snowballs pelted my back and legs stinging like crazy Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse thwack One smacked me right in the ear Head shot A thousand points shouted Jackson in his scratchy voice I dropped to my knees and hunched over A cold slug of ice slid down my neck Snowballs thumped all around me in the thin layer of snow With soggy grenades flying in all directions I didn’t dare look up The school’s intercom crackled and Principal Kirkland’s voice boomed across the field Students 1
