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    OMG... I Did it Again?!
    OMG... I Did it Again?!
    OMG... I Did it Again?!
    Ebook67 pages32 minutes

    OMG... I Did it Again?!

    By Talia Aikens-Nuñez

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    April Appleton wakes up to quite the sight: a herd of elephants marching down her street! When her brother bursts into her room with an accusing look on his face, she realizes that her powers of witchcraft have done it again.

    With her friends, Grace and Eve, April must figure out how the elephants got to her town in the first place and then how to get them back home. But with elephants playing in the neighbor's pool, sitting on cars and eating everyone's trees, how will they do it?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCentral Avenue Publishing
    Release dateMay 1, 2016
    ISBN9781771680356
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    OMG... I Did it Again?! - Talia Aikens-Nuñez

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    ONE

    AHHH! April Appleton sat up in bed and let out a gasp. Breathe. Breathe. Her chest went up and down from her heavy breathing.

    Boom, Boom, BOOM, BOOM! The noise was getting louder and louder. The closer it came, the more her bed shook.

    Is that an earthquake? Is there construction going on? Is that thunder? What is that?

    Her whole body vibrated with each ‘boom’. Her clock banged against the wall. The framed pictures bounced and danced on her desk. Her posters flipped and flapped on the wall.

    She threw her legs off the bed and jumped up. Scurrying to look out her bedroom window, there she saw it. The lump in her throat grew. One, two, three, four, then she stopped counting. She saw them marching down the street. They were larger than they were in her dream. But they were the exact same color. Huge, grey, wrinkled elephants were marching down the street.

    She grabbed her cell phone from the desk. She jumped back into her bed and pulled the comforter over her head, as if that would stop what was happening outside.

    She swallowed hard. With her fingers shaking she typed:

    TO: Eve LaRue, Grace Galapagos

    She squeezed her eyes tightly together, and hoped this was still a dream. She pinched herself. Ouch. This isn’t a dream.

    Then, memories flashed before her eyes. She remembered Googling a spell to turn her pestering older brother, Austin, into a dog. Then him teasing her on the bus. Poof. The spell worked! She panicked and texted Grace, her best friend who was in fifth grade with her. Grace knew Eve, a new student in school who moved to their town from New Orleans. Eve told April about her grandma who also had magical powers. Eve gave April her Book of Magie, her spell book. April remembered using her powers to turn Austin back into an angry, red-faced boy. It all came back to her. OMG… I am a witch! Her breath quickened.

    The loud footsteps of the elephants grew louder and louder. And everything shook more and more.

    She opened her eyes and exhaled. Still under her comforter, the sun streamed through the large pink polka dots. She blinked hard just to make sure all this was real.

    With the phone close to her face, she typed:

    OMG… I did it again?!

    With a whoosh, the door to her bedroom opened. She hit the send button.

    Holding her breath, she peered over the top of the covers. Austin stood in the doorway with his arms crossed and glaring at her. His foot was tapping. He walked into her room and closed the door behind him. April slowly pulled the covers down to show her face.

    His eyes locked on the cell phone. He stomped over to April, grabbed it out of her hands and read the most recently sent message.

    I knew it! he yelled at her. You did this, he said pointing out the window at the elephants. You did it AGAIN!

    TWO

    "AUSTIN, please don’t yell. Mom and Dad might hear you," April pleaded. She was breathing heavily.

    Her cell phone rang. April grabbed the phone back. Please be them. Please be them. She looked at the screen:

    ‘Grace calling…’

    It’s Grace, see? April extended her arm to show the phone to Austin. She and Eve will help me fix this.

    Her

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