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Sweet walked over to where Katie was standing. “I just wanted to thank you again, Katie,” the teacher told her. Ms. Sweet held out her hand. The ring sparkled on her finger. “I don’t know what I would have done if I’d lost this ring forever.”
    Suzanne wrapped her arm around Katie’s shoulders. “My best friend saved the day,” she boasted. “Of course, I taught her everything she knows.”
    “What’s that supposed to mean?” Becky asked.
    “I was the one who taught her to play I Spy,” Suzanne explained. “We used to play it in the car. Of course, I always won.”
    “But Katie won when it really counted,” Emma W. said, pointing to Ms. Sweet’s ring.
    Suzanne frowned. She opened her mouth to say something, but she was drowned out by the sound of Miriam screaming.
    “Ooooo! That’s so gross, George!” she shouted. “Get it away from me.”
    “What’s the matter, Miriam?” he asked her. “Don’t you like the under-the-sea environment I made? Come on. Take a bite!”
    “Yuck! Get that away from me!” Miriam squealed as she ran as far from George as she could.
    Katie looked into the bowl George was carrying. He’d filled it with blue raspberry ice cream, gummy fish, goldfish crackers, and blue punch. It was all mushed together. Now Katie understood why George hadn’t bothered with the joke-off.
    “Let me see you eat it,” Miriam called from the other side of the room. “I bet you won’t put one spoonful of that mess into your mouth.”
    But Miriam was wrong. George scooped up a big spoonful of the ice-cream-cracker-candy-punch slop, and shoved it into his mouth.

    “Ooo. Nasty,” Miriam said. She looked like she was going to be sick.
    Katie laughed. It was a lot more fun pretending to be under the sea than to really be there. She blinked her eyes a few times, just enjoying the fact that she had eyelids again.
    Yep, it was definitely more fun being Katie Kazoo than a clown fish. In fact, if it were up to her, Katie wouldn’t switch places with anyone.
    But it wasn’t really up to her at all. And at just that moment, Katie felt a cold wind blowing on the back of her neck. She jumped up, startled.
    Could the magic wind be back so soon?
    Would it come here now, in front of all these people?
    “Katie, will you shut the window, please?” Ms. Sweet called from across the room. “It’s a little windy in here.”
    Phew. Katie gave a big sigh of relief. It wasn’t the magic wind at all. It was just a regular old wind. Which meant Katie would stay herself.
    At least for now.

Go Fish !
    Katie and her pals sure learned a lot about fish during their trip to the aquarium. Now it’s your turn to take the bait and check out this list of fin . . . uh . . . er . . . fun fish facts!
    1. Scientists believe that there are more than twenty-eight thousand different fish species!
    2. One fish can actually walk on dry land! It’s called the climbing perch. This fish will walk on land in search of water when its water hole dries up.
    3. The heaviest fish ever caught was an ocean sunfish. That whopper of a fish weighed 4,928 pounds!
    4. When it comes to fish, the sailfish beats them all! It can swim up to sixty-eight miles per hour—faster than a car on the highway.
    5. The slowest fish is the sea horse, which moves less than one-tenth of a mile per hour.
    6. Fish don’t actually sleep. But they do rest. When they are resting, some fish just float calmly, others wedge themselves into a spot in the mud or coral, and others actually build themselves little nests.
    7. The largest fish is the whale shark, which can grow as big as fifty feet long.
    8. The eye of a giant squid can reach fifteen inches in diameter. That’s as big as a basketball!
    9. One ocean sunfish can lay up to five million eggs at one time!
    10. Goldfish have toothlike structures in the back of their throats! They use them to grind their food. When old teeth fall out, new ones grow in.

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