介绍:
As soon as I got home from school, I went up to my big sister Amy’s room.
Amy is in fifth grade, so she knows lots of things.
“You’ve got to help me!” I said. “If the school reads a million pages in books, Principal Klutz will put on a gorilla suit and let us turn the school into a video- game arcade!”
“I would do anything to see that,” Amy said.
Amy knows how to work the computer really well. She helped me make posters that said LET’S TURN OUR SCHOOL INTO A VIDEO-GAME ARCADE! and LET’S TURN PRINCI- PAL KLUTZ INTO A GORILLA! We tacked the posters up all over Main Street. Amy sent e-mails and instant mes- sages to all the kids in the fifth grade. The next morning we tacked the posters up all over school. I passed them out to the kids I saw. Mrs. Roopy, the school librar- ian, said we could put up some posters in the library. Mr. Sacco, the custodian, said we could put some up in the lunchroom and the bathrooms. Ms. Hynde, the music teacher, said we could put some up in the music room.
By the middle of the day, everyone in the school was reading like crazy! Kids were reading during lunch. Kids were reading during recess! Kids were plowingtheir way through books and then run- ning to the school library to ask Mrs. Roopy if they could check out more. I read a book about frogs, and I don’t even care anything about frogs.
Some of the teachers were starting to get mad, because kids were reading books when they were supposed to be doing other things.
“Please put those books away,” Miss Daisy had to tell us. “It’s time for reading.” Miss Daisy said she was sorry that she wouldn’t be able to help us very much because she didn’t know how to read. But she was nice enough to draw a big mural in the hallway with a giant thermometer on it. Every time we read a lot of pages, she would make the temperature line on the thermometer go up. At the top of the thermometer were the words One mil- lion.
Soon kids were bursting into our room and yelling, “Mrs. Biggs’s class has read another five hundred pages!” and “Miss Hasenfratz says to add another six hundred pages!” It was fun watching the temperature go up.
At the end of a week, our school had read almost a half a million pages!
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