1 Ch1-Science Is for Nerds

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Chapter 1 Science Is for Nerds My name is A.J. and I hate school. Why do we need to learn how to read if we have books on CD? Why do we need to learn social studies if that stuff happened a long time ago and we can't do anything about it now? I hate that stuff. But there's one subject I really hate.

Andrea Young. Well, Andrea is not exactly a subject. She's this annoying girl in my class. Even her curly brown hair is annoying. "Guess what, A.J.?" Andrea said as we were putting our backpacks away. "Your butt," I replied, (Anytime some- body asks, "Guess what?" you should always say "Your butt." That's the first rule of being a kid.) "I know what A.J. stands for," Andrea said. "Do not." "Do too." We went back and forth like that for a while. There's no way Andrea could

know what A.J. stands for. I never told anyone. Even my best friends, Ryan and Michael, don't know. If anyone ever found out what A.J. stands for, I'd have to get a new name. I'd have to leave town. "A.J. stands for—" Andrea never got the chance to finish her sentence because our teacher, Miss Daisy came in. "Enough chitchatting," Miss Daisy said "It's time for Show and Share." Oh man! I forgot all about Show and Share! We were supposed to bring in something that starts with the letter D and tell the class about it. I looked in my desk for a D word. Nothing. I looked in

my pockets. All I had was lunch money. But wait! A dime! "Dime" begins with D! "I brought in a dime," I told Miss Daisy. "Good!" she said. "What can you tell us about the dime, A.J.?" "It's worth ten cents," I said, and every- body laughed even though I didn't say anything funny. Andrea was waving her hand in the air, and she got called on, of course. "The word 'dime' comes from the Latin word 'decimus,'" Andrea said. I hate her.

"Very good, Andrea!" said Miss Daisy. "How did you know that?" "I looked it up in my D word," Andrea said. "I brought in a dictionary. I use it all the time at home to look up words." Andrea grinned her little I'm-so-smart grin. Ryan, who sits next to me, whispered, "If she was really smart, she wouldn't have to look stuff up." "Andrea, would you please look up the word 'science'?" asked Miss Daisy. "S-C-I-E-N-C-E." What a dumb spelling! There's no reason why that word should have a C in it. Andrea turned the pages of her dictionary.