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    No More Pranks
    No More Pranks
    No More Pranks
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    No More Pranks

    By Monique Polak

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    Pete's pranks have gotten him in plenty of trouble, but they might be the only way to bring justice to a seaside town.

    Pete likes to play pranks. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it gets a laugh. When he impersonates his vice-principal on a radio call-in show, he goes too far and is suspended from school. Pete's parents send him to spend the summer working with his uncle, a whale-watching guide in a tourist town far from the city. When a whale is injured by a reckless tour guide, Pete struggles to save the animal. Then Pete has to pull the most important prank of his life to bring the guide to justice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateSep 1, 2004
    ISBN9781554696789
    No More Pranks
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    Monique Polak

    Monique Polak is the author of more than thirty books for young people. She is the three-time winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Children's and YA Literature for her novels Hate Mail, What World is Left and Room for One More. In addition to teaching at Marianopolis College in Montreal, Monique is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Maclean's Magazine, the Montreal Gazette and other Postmedia newspapers. She is also a columnist on ICI Radio-Canada's Plus on est de fous, plus on lit! In 2016, Monique was the CBC/Quebec Writers' Federation inaugural writer-in-residence. Monique lives in Montreal.

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    • 3/5
      a quick, simple read about a young man who is expelled from high school after pranking one of the administrators. His family sends him to spend the summer with an uncle who takes tourists kayaking and whale watching.
    • 4/5
      After pulling yet another prank and getting caught, this time on the vice principal, Pete ends up having to spend the summer with his uncle, who owns a kayaking company in Tadoussac. Both his uncle and a girl he works with ask him to carry out no more pranks. In the middle of the night, he gets talked into pulling another prank, and in the midst of carrying it out, they make a very significant discovery. This is a very fast and enjoyable read and would be great for reluctant readers or ESL middle school students who are at least stage two.
    • 3/5
      a quick, simple read about a young man who is expelled from high school after pranking one of the administrators. His family sends him to spend the summer with an uncle who takes tourists kayaking and whale watching.
    • 2/5
      It's about boys who go fishing. They are always joking around while they are fishing. I thought it was boring. -D.G

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    No More Pranks - Monique Polak

    Cover: No More Pranks by Monique Polak.

    The cover photo shows people with safety jackets sailing on a speed boat.

    NO MORE PRANKS

    Monique Polak

    Logo: Orca soundings. Orca Book Publishers.

    Copyright © Monique Polak 2004, 2021

    Published in Canada and the United States in 2021 by Orca Book Publishers.

    Previously published in 2004 by Orca Book Publishers as a softcover (ISBN 9781551433158) and as an ebook (ISBN 9781551434193, PDF; ISBN 9781554696789, EPUB).

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    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.

    Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

    Title: No more pranks / Monique Polak.

    Names: Polak, Monique, author.

    Series: Orca soundings.

    Description: Second edition. | Series statement: Orca soundings | Previously published: Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers, 2004.

    Identifiers: Canadiana 20200371967 | ISBN 9781459830868 (softcover)

    CLASSIFICATION: LCC PS8631.O43 N6 2021 | DDC jc813/.6—dc23

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2020948718

    Summary: In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Pete has to pull the most important prank of his life.

    Orca Book Publishers is committed to reducing the consumption of nonrenewable resources in the making of our books. We make every effort to use materials that support a sustainable future.

    Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

    Design by Ella Collier

    Cover images by Getty Images/Anna Henly (front) and Shutterstock.com/Krasovski Dmitri (back)

    Printed and bound in Canada.

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    Orca Book Publishers is proud of the hard work our authors do and of the important stories they create. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it or did not check it out from a library provider, then the author has not received royalties for this book. The ebook you are reading is licensed for single use only and may not be copied, printed, resold or given away. If you are interested in using this book in a classroom setting, we have digital subscriptions with multi user, simultaneous access to our books, or classroom licenses available for purchase. For more information, please contact digital@orcabook.com.

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    For my Michael with love and gratitude

    for bringing me to the whales.

    Chapter One

    I’m not going to think about yesterday. No, I’m going to lie here under the covers and think about last week instead. Yesterday sucked big-time, but last week, well, last week was amazing.

    One thing’s for sure—I’m good. I don’t mean good in a goody-goody way, like that girl Elizabeth who sits in the front row in English, the one who’s always volunteering to erase the blackboard or run errands for the teacher. When I say I’m good, I mean I’m bad. Real bad.

    It must’ve been pure badness that gave me the idea to phone the Pillow Talk hotline and pretend I was Mr. Quincy. That and the fact that he gave me a detention the week before for not having my shirt tucked in. You’d figure a vice-principal would have better things to do than patrol the hallways looking for dress-code violations. If you ask me, any self-respecting guy who goes around with a clear plastic ruler and measures the platforms on girls’ shoes is asking for trouble.

    Which is what I gave him.

    When I got the idea, it was like I was possessed. Nothing could’ve stopped me—not even if I’d known how royally pissed off my parents would be.

    Everyone at school listens to Pillow Talk. It’s a total hoot. These perverts phone in to discuss their sexual problems. You’d think they’d be shy to talk about stuff like that on the radio, but they’re not. Like this one nutbar phoned to say he likes to prance around naked right in front of his living room window. He wanted to know if Dr. Dingle—believe it or not, that’s the name of the sex therapist who hosts the show—thought there was anything wrong with that. Then there was this headcase who phoned to discuss her urge to tie her boyfriend up before they fooled around. You gotta admit, sometimes people can be pretty whacked out. It makes me wonder about regular-looking people I see in the street or at the mall. I want to ask them, Are you one of those weirdoes or what?

    I was pretty surprised when Dr. Dingle picked up the phone himself. I knew it was him because I would have recognized his voice anywhere. I have been listening to him twice a week since seventh grade. He’s got one of those low, really serious voices and he says uh-huh and I see a lot. He also makes this clucking sound when people say how lousy they feel.

    Which is exactly what he did with me. Only, it wasn’t

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