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your workbooks,” said Mr. Todd. “Let’s get those pencils working.”
    Uh-oh!
Judy thought.
    “Hey, my pencil’s gone!”
    “Mine too!”
    “Mine was right here!”
    “Mr. Todd! Mr. Todd! Somebody stole our pencils!” The whole class was in an uproar.
    “Okay, is somebody playing a joke?” asked Mr. Todd. Nobody answered. “Do any of you know anything about the missing pencils?”
    Judy kept her head down and pretended to work out math problems. Brad looked at Judy. She was the only one NOT complaining about her missing pencil. And she was doing math problems with a
p-e-n.
    “Pencil thief!” Brad yelled, pointing at her. “Judy Moody stole our pencils!”

    Judy felt the eyes of twenty-one third-grade pencil lovers turn to glare at her.
    “Judy?” Mr. Todd came over to her desk. “What do you know about these missing pencils?”
    “Okay, I took them,” Judy confessed. “Because I think we should stop using pencils.”
    “Stop using pencils? That’s nuts!” Brad said.
    “To help save the rain forest,” said Judy.
    “Hmm. Class, what do you think?” asked Mr. Todd.
    “We just want our pencils back,” said Leo.
    Judy could not believe these third-grade pencil freaks! Were they in the ozone? Didn’t they care that seventy football fields of trees a minute were being cut down? She wished they would all move to PENCILvania.
    “I think we
should
save the rain forest,” said Frank.
    “Me too,” said Hailey.
    “Me three,” Rocky said.
    “Yeah, but we can’t just give up pencils forever,” said Randi. “We have to write stuff, and erase. Like in Math. How can we save the world without math?”
    “Maybe we don’t have to use so many,” said Jessica Finch. “One pencil can draw a line thirty-five miles long. We could all promise to use the same pencil until fifth grade.”
    How did Jessica Fink Finch know so much about pencils? Maybe she wasn’t such a fink after all.
    “How many pencils can you get from a tree?” Judy asked.
    “None,” said Brad. “Pencils don’t grow on trees.”
    “Hardee-har-har,” said Judy. “I mean it. You can get a lot of pencils from one tree. For real.”
    “One tree can make 172,000 pencils!” said Jessica Finch. “I read it in my
Ranger Rick
magazine.”
    “Wow! One tree could make all the pencils in our school.”
    “All the pencils in Virginia!”

    “We could plant a tree in the rain forest, then,” said Judy. “You know, for the Virginia Dare School. To make up for all the pencils we use.”
    “Kids all over the world raise money to protect rain forests,” Jessica told the class. “It only costs a dollar to have one tree planted in the Children’s Rain Forest in Costa Rica.”
    “If it only costs a dollar,” Judy said, “then we could send money for them to plant trees, and our class can adopt them.”
    “Wow!” everybody said. “Let’s do it.”
    “Class? Any ideas about how to raise some money?” Mr. Todd asked.
    “How about a car wash?” said Lucy.
    “We could sell stuff,” said Adam. “Like cookies!”
    “My sister put on a play in fifth grade and made money to help save the whales,” said Jessica. “She even won a Giraffe Award for it.”
    A Giraffe Award! For somebody who sticks their neck out for a good cause. Judy could hardly wait till fifth grade!
    “Maybe we could put on a magic show,” said Rocky.
    “Or we could collect a bunch of stuff to recycle,” said Frank, “and get money for it. The Recycle Center gives five cents each for pop bottles and milk jugs.”
    “Rare!” said Judy.
    “Double cool!” said Rocky.
    “A bottle drive sounds like a fine idea,” said Mr. Todd. “We could raise money while recycling at the same time. What do you say, class? Do you think we could collect enough bottles?”
    “Yeah!” everybody yelled.
    It was settled. The Virginia Dare School, Class 3T, was going into the bottle business. Starting with their very own cafeteria.
    The third-graders spent the afternoon