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yelled, even Emily and Andrea.
    We couldn’t wait to get to the musicroom to congratulate Mr. Hynde. Everybody wanted to be the line leader.
    Finally we got to the music room all out of breath. But nobody was there.
    â€œWhere’s Mr. Hynde?” we all asked.
    â€œI’ll bet he’s going to make a big entrance, like he usually does,” Ryan said.
    â€œI’m ready to get down and boogie,” Michael said.
    So we waited. And we waited and waited and waited. Finally, after about a million hundred years, the door opened. And you won’t believe who walked in.
    It was Mr. Loring!
    Boring, snoring Mr. Loring was standing there, looking as boring as ever.

    Everybody gasped.
    â€œSit down, please,” Mr. Loring said. “We always sit down for music class.”
    â€œMr. Loring!” Andrea asked. “What are you doing here?”
    â€œI am here to teach music, of course,” he said.
    â€œWhat happened to Mr. Hynde?” I asked.
    â€œApparently he quit,” said Mr. Loring.
    â€œWhat?” I shouted. “That’s not fair!”
    â€œPrincipal Klutz asked me to come back,” Mr. Loring said, “and I agreed, against my better judgment.”
    Everybody moaned. Mr. Loring reached into his jacket and pulled out a piece of paper.
    â€œMr. Hynde left a note for you,” he said. “Would you like me to read it?”
    â€œYeah!”
    So Mr. Loring read Mr. Hynde’s note:
    â€œI hope you dudes don’t think I’m rude.
    Don’t moan and cry ’cause I didn’t say good-bye.
    I had to keep it real ’til I got a record deal.
    But now I hit it big, so I quit my teaching gig.
    You kids are cool. I dig your school.
    Wherever I go, whatever I do,
    There’s one thing true.
    I’ll always remember you.”
    Emily started crying, that crybaby.
    Well, to be honest, we all started crying.
    â€œI realize you’re sad that Mr. Hynde is no longer here,” said Mr. Loring. “Maybe if we sing a song, it will make you feel better.”

    â€œCan we sing that sun will come out tomorrow song?” I asked. “That will cheer us up.”
    â€œYeah, it will remind us of Mr. Hynde,” said Michael.
    â€œI was thinking of something else,” Mr. Loring said. And then he began to sing:
    â€œWho stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
    A.J. stole the cookie from the cookie jar.
    Who me?
    Yes you.
    Couldn’t be.
    Then who?
    Emily stole the cookie from the cookie jar.”

    No! Not that song! Anything but that song!
    Mr. Loring made us sing that dumb cookie jar song over and over again until everybody’s name in the whole class was mentioned. It was horrible. Ithought I was gonna die.
    Well, it looks like boring, snoring Mr. Loring is back at Ella Mentry School for the rest of the year. I guess we’re just gonna have to put up with him until Mr. Klutz hires a new music teacher.
    Like the song says, we’ll have to stick out our chins and grin. We’re gonna have to hang on till tomorrow, come what may.
    But it won’t be easy!

About the Author and the Illustrator
    DAN GUTMAN has written many weird books for kids. Dan 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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    Cover art © 2004 by Jim Paillot
    Cover © 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

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    MY WEIRD SCHOOL #6: MR. HYNDE IS OUT OF HIS MIND! . Text copyright © 2005 by Dan Gutman. Illustrations copyright © 2005 by Jim Paillot. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been