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behind the curtain!”
    The lady in the bathing suit stood in front of the curtain.
    “Take the money!” some kids shouted.
    “Pick the curtain!” other kids shouted.
    “I’ll take what’s behind the curtain, Dickie,” said Miss Laney.
    “Okay, let’s see what she won!” said Dickie Blinkbarker.
    The curtain opened, and you’ll never believe in a million hundred years what was behind it.
    I’m not gonna tell you.
    Okay, okay, I’ll tell you.
    It was a boat !
    Dickie Blinkbarker and Miss Laney climbed into the boat and pretended to row it even though there wasn’t any water.
    “We’re on a boat!” they said.
    It was hilarious.
     
    So, to make a long story short, our school doesn’t have to close after all. Maybe all the teachers who got fired will get theirjobs back. Maybe Mr. Granite will get his desk and whiteboard back. Maybe they’ll put back the salad bar and the monkeybars. Maybe Miss Laney will get a regular office instead of a bathroom. Maybe it will have a pool table in it so she can get some good cue sticks. Maybe Miss Laney will give us a ride in her new boat. Maybe Mr. Klutz will grow some hair. Maybe I can go to speech class every day. Maybe I’ll figure out why everybody is always talking about boats for no reason.

    But it won’t be easy!

Acknowledgments
    Thanks to Nicole Abbatemarco,
    Naomi Gerstenblith, Janet Goodman,
    Chris Horwitz, Helen Pires

About the Author and the Illustrator
    Dan Gutman has written many weird books for kids. He lives in New Jersey (a very weird place) with his weird wife and two weird children. You can visit him on his weird website at
www.dangutman.com.
    Jim Paillot lives in Arizona (another weird place) with his weird wife and two weird children. Isn’t that weird? You can visit him on his weird website at www.jimpaillot.com.
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Copyright
    MY WEIRD SCHOOL DAZE #8: MISS LANEY IS ZANY!. Text copyright © 2010 by Dan Gutman. Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Jim Paillot. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
    ISBN 978-0-06-155417-9 (lib. bdg.)—ISBN 978-0-06-155415-5 (pbk.)
    EPub Edition © December 2009 ISBN: 978-0-06-196665-1
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