6 Ch6-Miss Suki Is a Big Crybaby

Chapter 6 Miss Suki Is a Big Crybaby Everybody clapped and cheered when Miss Suki came out on stage. Then we all got quiet so we could hear what she had to say. Hello! Thank you so much for inviting me to your At that very second, the strangest thing

in the history of the world happened. All these bells started clanging so loud that we had to cover our ears. Miss Suki freaked out. FIRE! she shouted. The school is on fire! Run for your lives! And then she went running out of the room, hugging her mystery box. Miss Suki is kooky! It wasn't a fire. It was just a fire drill. Any dumbhead knows that once in a while the bells ring and we all have to go stand out in the playground. Line up in single file, Miss Daisy told us. We marched out of the school. When

we got to the playground, Mr. Klutz was running around trying to catch up with Miss Suki. All the girls were complaining that the wind was messing up their hair and it wouldn't look good for Picture Day. That would be cool if the school really did burn down, I told Ryan and Michael. Yeah, Ryan agreed. Then we could toast marshmallows. Miss Suki was standing near our class, still hugging her mystery box, when Mr. Klutz finally caught up with her. Maybe this just isn't my day, Miss Suki said, shaking her head. Oh, don't worry, Mr. Klutz told her. The fire drill wasn't supposed to happen

today. Nothing else could possibly go wrong. The bell rang again, which meant the fire drill was over. We went back inside to the all-purpose room, and Mrs. Roopy introduced Miss Suki all over again. Well, that was exciting, said Miss Suki. Thanks for inviting me to your school. I love books and reading. Don't you? Yes! said all the girls. No! said all the boys. Books can take you to different worlds, said Miss Suki. So can spaceships, somebody yelled. What's in that box, Miss Suki? somebody else yelled. Mrs. Roopy jumped up

and grabbed the microphone. Please don't call out any questions yet, Mrs. Roopy said. Miss Suki will answer your questions at the end of her

talk. She handed the microphone back to Miss Suki. When I was a little girl growing up in Japan, Miss Suki said, my mother took me to the library every week. And by the time I was ten years old, I had read every book in that library. That's when I knew I was going to grow up and become a children's book author. Wow, we all said, even though it wasn't that interesting. Ever since I was little, I loved animals, Miss Suki told us. That's why I write about them and draw pictures of them. Miss Suki drew a picture of a bird on the easel. Well, she didn't really draw a