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covered his ears. “Stop talking like that! That’s not how members of the Boys Club should sound.”
    “I’m not in the Boys Club anymore,” Jeremy told him.
    “Why not?” Kevin asked.
    Before Jeremy could answer, Suzanne, Miriam, Mandy, and Zoe walked over to the tree.
    “Come on, Katie,” Suzanne said. “We have a Girls Club meeting now.”
    Katie shook her head. “I’m not in the Girls Club anymore.”
    “What?” Suzanne asked with surprise.
    “Jeremy and I are starting a new club,” Katie explained. “The BUG Club.” She held up a picture she’d drawn. It was a picture of a ladybug and a bumblebee.
    “The BUG club,” George laughed. “That’s perfect for girls. The cootie bug club!”
    “Not funny,” Jeremy said. “BUG stands for Boys United with Girls.”
    “Isn’t that BUWG?” Mandy asked.
    “I know,” Katie admitted. “But that doesn’t spell anything. So we’re just calling it the BUG Club.”
    “I think the BUG Club sounds awful,” Suzanne said.
    “It’s a great club,” Jeremy told her. “We’re going to do all kinds of fun things.”
    “And we’re not going to fight like your clubs do,” Katie added.
    “What kind of things are you going to do?” Manny asked.
    “Well, for starters, we’re going ice skating at Skyrink this weekend,” Katie said.
    “This weekend?” Suzanne asked. “But my party is this weekend.”
    “And we were going to go to the amusement park,” Manny reminded Jeremy.
    “But that’s on Saturday,” Katie said. “The BUG Club is going skating on Sunday.”
    “That way we can do everything,” Jeremy added.
    “It’s okay to do things just with girls or boys sometimes,” Katie said. “But that doesn’t mean we can’t all hang out together other times.”
    “That’s what the BUG Club is all about,” Jeremy explained. “Everybody being friends.”
    “Well, ice skating is fun,” Kevin said.
    “I do have this adorable purple skating dress,” Suzanne thought out loud. “It’s got glitter on the skirt.”
    “The BUG Club, huh?” Zoe said. “That sounds kind of cute.”
    Katie looked over at Jeremy and smiled. The first meeting of the BUG Club was working out just fine.

Chapter 13
    Katie laughed as she saw George holding onto the side of the rink. He was trying not to fall. He’d never been ice skating before. “Come on George, you can do it!” Katie cheered him on.
    George tried to smile. “You know what the hardest part of skating is, Katie Kazoo?” he joked.
    “No. What?”
    “The ice!” George answered. He rubbed his rear end. George had done a lot of falling today.
    Katie giggled. “You’re getting better,” she assured him.

    Suzanne skated up to Katie. “This BUG Club is a lot of fun,” she said. “I just wish I wasn’t so sleepy.”
    “You’re the one who wanted to stay up all night,” Katie reminded her. “The rest of us fell asleep before the movie was over.”
    Suzanne gave her a tired smile. “I told you. Nobody is supposed to sleep at a sleepover.”
    Just then, Jeremy shouted across the ice. “Hey everyone, let’s do the BUG Club cheer!”
    “Yeah!” The kids cried out.
    “Buzz, buzz, buzz! Zap, zap, sting! If you’re in the BUG Club, friends are everything!”
    As Katie listened to her friends cheer, she felt a cool breeze hit the back of her neck. Oh no! Was this magic wind again? Who was she going to turn into now?
    Then Katie remembered that she was at an ice-skating rink. The whole room was breezy. She was supposed to feel cold.
    Katie wrapped her scarf a little tighter around her neck and skated around the rink with her friends. She didn’t want to think about the magic wind. She was happy just being Katie.
    At least for now.

Jeremy’s Soccer Center
    If you play soccer or if you want to learn how, this chapter’s for you. It’s filled with tips from Jeremy Fox—the best soccer player in class 3A.
    1. Always warm up before you play. If you don‘t, you might hurt your muscles. If