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    Anna, Banana, and the Big-Mouth Bet
    Anna, Banana, and the Big-Mouth Bet
    Anna, Banana, and the Big-Mouth Bet
    Ebook95 pages49 minutes

    Anna, Banana, and the Big-Mouth Bet

    By Anica Mrose Rissi and Meg Park

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    Anna finds herself standing up to the class clown in the third book of a charming illustrated chapter book series about the joys and challenges of elementary school friendships.

    Anna has a loose tooth! It’s as wiggly as her dog Banana’s tail. But when Anna is poking at her loose tooth, class clown Justin keeps poking fun at Anna and her friends.

    Anna tries to make Justin leave them alone and gets pulled into a high-stakes bet. If Anna wins, Justin has to play nice; but if Anna loses, she has to do something so jaw-droppingly embarrassing, even Banana can’t believe it.

    There’s no wiggling her way out of this one. Anna has to win this bet.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9781481416139
    Anna, Banana, and the Big-Mouth Bet
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    Anica Mrose Rissi

    Anica Mrose Rissi  is the author of Always Forever Maybe and Nobody Knows But You, along with several books for younger readers. She lives in Princeton, NJ, and Deer Isle, ME. Visit her online at www.anicarissi.com,

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      Anna, Banana, and the Big-Mouth Bet - Anica Mrose Rissi

      Chapter One

      That Spells Trouble

      Trouble, I wrote, spelling it out in my head as I printed the word on the test. T-r-o-u-b-l-e.

      O-plus-U and L-before-E were the hard parts in that one, but I was certain I’d gotten it right. Dad had quizzed me on all the spelling and vocabulary words this morning at breakfast, and even Banana was amazed by how quickly I’d breezed through them. And dogs are hardly ever impressed by good spelling.

      I tapped my lucky blue pencil against my lip as I thought about how to use the word in a sentence. Banana once got in trouble for chewing Chuck’s sneaker, I wrote, wrinkling my nose at the memory. Banana doesn’t chew on things she’s not supposed to anymore, but she still loves sniffing at things that stink, including my older brother’s yucky shoes.

      Pesky! our teacher, Ms. Burland, exclaimed. She always sings out the words for our tests as though she’s performing them onstage. It makes the quizzes a lot more dramatic, and even kind of fun. Pesky, she repeated, this time in a low, booming voice. Beside me, my best friend Isabel giggled.

      I wrote down the word, then used it in a sentence: Those pesky flies won’t leave us alone!

      I glanced over at my other best friend, Sadie. I knew she’d been nervous about the test, so I was worried for her. But Sadie was bent over her paper, scribbling the answer, with her curls spilling into her face. It looked like she was doing fine.

      No cheating, Anna! Justin called out from the desk behind mine. My mouth fell open and my heart sped up at the attack. I wasn’t cheating!

      Ms. Burland raised her eyebrows in our direction. You should all have your eyes on your own papers, please, she said.

      I looked down quickly. I wasn’t really in trouble, but my cheeks still burned. Forget flies—I should have written my sentence about pesky Justin. He was the worst.

      Accuse, Ms. Burland announced, sounding stern. Accuse! she repeated, calling it out like a cheerful greeting.

      I narrowed my eyes. Justin likes to accuse innocent girls of cheating, I wrote on my test. There. That ought to clear my name. And I hoped Ms. Burland would notice that I’d also used one of last week’s spelling words, innocent, and spelled it correctly. I thought that was pretty clever of me.

      But wait, was cheating spelled right? I pressed my lips together, thinking hard, and gasped. I’d felt a tooth move! I touched the tooth with my tongue and pushed it again. Sure enough, it wiggled.

      I was so distracted by the slightly loose tooth, I almost missed the final spelling word. Luckily, Ms. Burland said it once more. About.

      I spelled it out carefully and wrote, I can’t wait to tell Banana and Sadie and Isabel about my loose tooth!

      Chapter Two

      Loosey-Goosey

      When the test was over, Ms. Burland asked Isabel and Timothy to collect all the papers. I put my lucky blue pencil that I use for quizzes back down on the desk, in between the regular pencil I use for normal schoolwork and the supersparkly rainbow pencil I hardly use at all. The supersparkly rainbow pencil is mostly too special to write with, but I love to look at it. Sadie gave it to me after the one I’d had before it broke.

      I peeked over at Sadie and lifted both eyebrows to ask, How’d the test go? Sadie grinned and gave me a thumbs-up.

      Usually Theresa, the housekeeper at Sadie’s mom’s place, helps Sadie study for spelling tests. But this week Theresa was away on vacation and Sadie was staying at her dad’s house, and he’s not as good as my dad or Theresa at quiz prep. He does buy us really tasty snacks for sleepovers, though.

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