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    Cleared for Takeoff
    Cleared for Takeoff
    Cleared for Takeoff
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    Cleared for Takeoff

    By Julia DeVillers and Paige Pooler

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    In New Girl in Town, Liberty is settled in at the White House but off to a rough start at her new school. It’s hard being the new girl, especially since she has to bring along a bodyguard. And do the other kids only want to be friends because she’s the First Daughter?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateJul 12, 2011
    ISBN9781442423992
    Cleared for Takeoff
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    Julia DeVillers

    Julia DeVillers is the author of How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestseller, which was adapted as a Disney Channel Original Movie. She is also the author of the Liberty Porter, First Daughter series and the coauthor of the Trading Faces series, written with her twin sister, Jennifer Roy.

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      Book preview

      Cleared for Takeoff - Julia DeVillers

      Don’t miss any of

      Liberty Porter’s awesome

      adventures!

      ALSO BY JULIA DEVILLERS

      LIBERTY PORTER, FIRST DAUGHTER

      NEW GIRL IN TOWN

      This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

      1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

      www.SimonandSchuster.com

      First Aladdin hardcover edition July 2011

      Text copyright © 2011 by Julia DeVillers

      Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Paige Pooler

      All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction

      in whole or in part in any form.

      ALADDIN is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,

      and related logo is a registered trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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      Designed by Karin Paprocki

      The text of this book was set in Bauer Bodoni.

      The illustrations for this book were rendered digitally.

      Manufactured in the United States of America 0611 FFG

      2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      DeVillers, Julia.

      Cleared for takeoff / by Julia DeVillers ; illustrated by Paige Pooler. — 1st Aladdin hardcover ed.

      p. cm. — (Liberty Porter, first daughter)

      ISBN 978-1-4169-9130-4

      I. Pooler, Paige, ill. II. Title.

      PZ7.D4974Cl 2011

      [Fic]—dc22

      2010045056

      ISBN 978-1-4424-2399-2 (eBook)

      I wrote this book while living

      in the country of Georgia while my husband

      worked at the American Embassy.

      Thus, for my new friends:

      the people of Georgia.

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Many thanks to my:

      Chapter 1

      IF YOUR FATHER HAS BEEN PRESIDENT OF THE United States of America for two whole months and you’ve been First Daughter and super-secret assistant to the president for the same amount of time, there are a few things you should know:

      1. You get to go to cool places in your own neighborhood. Like museums that have dinosaurs, your mom’s dress from Inauguration Day, and George Washington’s false teeth.

      2. You don’t have to give your teeth to the museum, even if a bossy girl at school tries to make you think you do. (Whew!)

      3. You have a great huge room to throw a party where even Chief of Staff Miss Crum will dance like a crazy person.

      4. You don’t get to have the White House staff clean up after your party. You have to clean up even the gajillion rainbow sprinkles that spilled.

      5. Your Secret Service Agent will secretly help you sweep up the tricky sprinkles under the couch.

      Liberty loved living in the White House. It was the house where every single president except for George Washington lived. A house where other First Kids had lived for more than two hundred years.

      A house where more than one million tourists came through in a year! More than one million! Including kajillions of kids.

      Liberty thought that would mean she would have kajillions of playdates. But that wasn’t how it worked. She couldn’t just walk down and invite people to come upstairs to her room and play.

      She had tried that on her first day in the White House. She wasn’t allowed to do that anymore. She had to make special plans for people to come over.

      And she had no plans for today. That meant Liberty was lonely.

      Liberty knew she was lucky she lived in the White House. The White House had its own movie theater! Its own bowling alley! Its own playground!

      But it would be nice to be able to share them with somebody today. Liberty had met some new friends at school, but today there was no school.

      Liberty’s teacher, Mr. Santo, had asked the class what they were going to do for the holiday weekend.

      Some people were going to the ocean. Some were going to visit their grandparents. Someone was going camping. Everyone was going somewhere. Everyone except Liberty.

      Then suddenly someone did come into her room. Franklin! Liberty’s dog was back from his morning walk.

      Good boy, Liberty said, kneeling down to scritch Franklin behind the ears. You came to play with me!

      Liberty picked up Franklin’s favorite squeaky ball. She squeezed it in front of his nose and then tossed it.

      Franklin looked at the ball. Then he yawned. Then he went over to his bed and circled it a few times. Then he plopped down on it and fell asleep.

      Wait, no, Liberty said. Wake up and play! Look, your favorite tugging toy!

      Liberty waved his toy in front of his nose.

      Franklin just lay there and snored.

      Usually Franklin loved to play fetch. But apparently, all he wanted to do now was play dead.

      Franklin, Liberty tried again. Wake up! You’re not nocturnal like Roosevelt and Suzy.

      Roosevelt and Suzy were her sugar gliders. They were only awake at night. So Liberty couldn’t play with them now either.

      Boooooooring. She needed ideas for something to do. Liberty looked at a poster on her wall. It was one of the posters her father used when he was running for president.

      PORTER: A MAN WITH IDEAS FOR AMERICA!

      Her father!

      Maybe he would have ideas for his daughter. Liberty took out her really cool turquoise cell phone. She texted POTUS (DADDY).

      That meant the president of the United States.

      AM BORED. DO U HAVE IDEAS FOR ME?

      Liberty waited. Then her cell phone brrzped back.

      USE YOUR IMAGINATION.

      That was the best he could do? Use her imagination? Brrzp! Another text came in from him. Oh, maybe he had another idea.

      CLEAN UR ROOM.

      Liberty should change that sign of his.

      PORTER: A MAN WITH IDEAS FOR AMERICA!

      BUT BAD IDEAS FOR HIS DAUGHTER.

      Liberty texted back:

      I’LL USE MY IMAGINATION. KTHXBAI.

      Okay. Imagination time. Liberty decided she would pretend she was on vacation. She looked in her dresser drawers. She pulled out a T-shirt that said FUN IN THE SUN and bright yellow sunglasses shaped like suns. She also pulled a hula skirt over her jeans and put on a lei her father got her in Hawaii.

      Now she looked like she was on vacation.

      Liberty took her extra pair of sunglasses out and placed them on Franklin’s nose. Franklin kept

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