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    A Squirmy, Wormy Surprise
    A Squirmy, Wormy Surprise
    A Squirmy, Wormy Surprise
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    A Squirmy, Wormy Surprise

    By Jenny Meyerhoff and Éva Chatelain

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    Anna starts a new school year with a new teacher who is very different in this sixth book in the Friendship Garden series.

    It’s a new school year, which means new books, new sharpened pencils, and a new beginning! Anna’s excited to start fourth grade, but she’s not excited about her fourth-grade teacher, Miss Lopez. Miss Lopez is nothing like Mr. Hoffman, Anna’s third grade teacher.

    For starters, Miss Lopez is S-T-R-I-C-T. She doesn’t allow talking or humming or anything fun. Not only that, but she seems to dislike Anna right off the bat.

    When Miss Lopez doesn’t pick Anna to help out in the class’s new butterfly garden, Anna realizes she needs to make Miss Lopez like her, once and for all. And she’s willing to do whatever it takes! But how do you force someone like you…especially a teacher?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateSep 12, 2017
    ISBN9781481470568
    A Squirmy, Wormy Surprise
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    Jenny Meyerhoff

    Jenny Meyerhoff is author of the Barftastic Life of Louie Burger series, as well as the books Sami’s Sleepaway Summer, Third Grade Baby, and Queen of Secrets. She is also the proud planter of her very own vegetable garden. Jenny grows string beans, broccoli, and spinach, but she has never picked a purple pepper. When she’s not busy writing, she likes to hang out with her husband and three children playing Scrabble and watching movies.

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      A Squirmy, Wormy Surprise - Jenny Meyerhoff

      THE WHEELS OF ANNA’S GREEN bicycle bumped over the sidewalk as she rode to Sullivan Magnet School. It wasn’t the first day of fourth grade—school didn’t start for two more days—but Anna’s stomach was still filled with butterflies. Today, class lists would be posted on the front windows of Anna’s school. Class list day didn’t have an actual name, but Anna nicknamed it the Fun Forecast. Just like the weather report told Anna whether a day would be sunny or rainy, the class list would tell her whether fourth grade would feel fun and friendly or lost and lonely.

      Anna pedaled faster, even though her younger brother, Collin, called from behind her, Anna, wait up! I can’t ride that fast.

      Anna didn’t want to wait. She needed to find out if Kaya and Reed were in her class. Last year Anna moved to Chicago from upstate New York, and she’d had to make all new friends. It was hard at first, but third grade in Mr. Hoffman’s class turned out to be the best year of school ever. Mr. Hoffman helped her start a school garden club, the Friendship Garden, and being in the Friendship Garden helped her find her friends. She didn’t want to start all over again in a class where she didn’t know anyone.

      Anna Banana! Anna’s father called out. Ever since they moved to Chicago, Anna’s dad was the parent who stayed home and took care of Anna and her brother. Anna’s mother was a chef at a fancy restaurant.

      Stop at the corner, he added. We’ll all cross the street together.

      Anna squeezed the brakes on her handlebars and stopped. Then she watched as Collin rode his bike the rest of the way up the block while her father walked beside him. Why were they so S-L-O-W?

      Across the street, the front yard of the school was filled with students and grown-ups, chatting, laughing, and running around. Closer to the school, a crowd of people blocked the windows. Everyone was trying to get a peek at the lists.

      Finally Anna’s father and Collin reached the corner, and when the light turned green, they all crossed the street. Anna parked her bike at the bike rack and raced toward the lists. But before she was halfway there, Kaya, her best friend in the whole world, burst from the crowd and zoomed toward her.

      We! Are! In! The! Same! Class! Kaya shouted, pumping her fists in the air with each word. And Reed and Bailey too.

      Anna grabbed both of Kaya’s hands. It was too good to be true: all of her new friends in the same class. Are you sure?

      Kaya nodded. Come on, I’ll show you.

      Kaya grabbed Anna’s hand and pulled her into the group of people waiting to see the lists. They wove their way through elbows and legs until they were right up at the front.

      There, Kaya said, pointing. Look!

      Anna looked at the list. At the top it said:

      Fourth Grade

      Room 13

      Miss Lopez

      Anna glanced down the list, and she saw her own name, plus Kaya’s, Reed’s, and Bailey’s, but she didn’t study the list the way she thought she would. Her eyes bounced right back up to the top of the paper.

      Fourth Grade

      Room 13

      Miss Lopez

      Anna grabbed the edge of her T-shirt with her

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