door would hurt. But guess who ran through the door way ?
It was Dr. Carbles, the president of the Board of Education!
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Author Visits Are Fun!
âSorry I missed the assembly,â he said. âWhatâs going on here, Klutz? Why are you dressed up in that weird costume? Why is it that every time I visit this school, thereâs a disturbance?â
âNo reason to be alarmed, sir,â said Mr. Klutz. âJust a minor problem with a raptor.â
âRaptor?!â exclaimed Dr. Carbles.âDidnât one of them rip some guyâs head off in Jurassic Park ?â
âBe careful!â begged Miss Suki. âHeâs my baby!â
âYou gave birth to a raptor?â asked Dr. Carbles.
Just then, Rappy came down from the ceiling and started swooping around the gym again. Everyone was ducking and screaming.
âStand back!â shouted Mr. Klutz, as he waved the catcherâs mitt around to attract Rappyâs attention. âCome on, Rappy. Be a good boy. Come to Papa!â
I think Mr. Klutz was waving the catcherâs mitt around a little too fast.Because while he was waving it, Emilyâs mirror fell out. It hit the floor and broke into a million hundred little pieces.
âOh, no!â everybody yelled.
Mr. Klutz looked at Miss Suki. Miss Suki looked at Miss Daisy. Miss Daisy looked at Mrs. Roopy. Mrs. Roopy looked at the photographer. Everybody was looking at everybody else.
Suddenly Rappy went really crazy and started flying even faster around the gym. Then he must have spotted the shiny letters on the Blueberry Award, because he dive-bombed straight toward Mr. Klutz!
Mr. Klutz didnât know what to say! Hedidnât know what to do! He had to think fast!
Just before Rappy would have rammed into him, Mr. Klutz held up the Blueberry Award.
Wham!
Rappy slammed right into it and broke it in half! Oooooh, that had to hurt! Rappy got it right on the kisser!
It was awesome. A real Kodak moment. Luckily the photographer was snapping pictures the whole time.
âHooray for Mr. Klutz!â we all shouted.
Everybody was cheering. Well, everybody except for Miss Suki, who was on her knees, sobbing. Rappy didnât look too happy either. In fact, it looked like he might be dead. He was on the floor with his legs in the air, twitching.
âIs that what Mr. Klutz meant by killing two birds with one stone?â Ryan asked.
âHeâs dead!â Miss Suki cried. âYou killed my baby!â
âHeâs not dead,â Mr. Klutz assured her. âHeâs justâ¦resting.â
âDoes this mean that Rappy is still endangered?â asked Michael. âOr is he extinct now?â
âI donât know,â I said. âHe smells fine to me.â
âYouâre a bunch of monsters!â Miss Suki shouted as she scooped Rappy offthe floor. âThis is the worst day of my life!â
Then she ran out of the gym crying. She didnât even take the shattered pieces of her Blueberry Award with her.
âDoes this mean you wonât be signing any more autographs?â I asked Miss Suki. But I donât think she heard me. She was long gone.
All in all, I thought Miss Sukiâs visit was really cool, especially when Rappy went berserk and attacked Emily. I mean, we got to meet a famous author, and we got to see Mr. Klutz dress up like a catcher with a towel around his head. But best of all, we got to miss math.
I was thinking about it. Miss Suki won the Blueberry Award by writing about a raptor that flew into a window and nearly died. And then the same raptor flew into the Blueberry Award and nearly died! I guess the moral of the story is that you should never bring a raptor to school. Or a Blueberry Award.
Maybe Miss Suki will be able to nurse Rappy back to health again. Maybe Mrs. Cooney will be able to nurse Emily back to health again. Maybe Miss Lazar will be able to fix the Blueberry Award. Maybe Emily and