7 Ch7-Rappy the Raptor Is Cool

Chapter 7 Rappy the Raptor Is Cool Miss Suki opened the mystery box and took out a big bird. It let out a loud SQUAWK! This, she announced, is Rappy. He's my inspiration for The Fearless Falcon. Wow! we all said. Now that really was interesting.

I found him on the ground outside a building that was covered with windows, Miss Suki told us as the bird perched on her finger. Rappy must have seen his reflection and rammed into the glass, trying to attack it. His parents were nowhere to be found, so I brought him home with me. Poor Rappy nearly died. That's what gave me the idea for my book. Miss Suki started crying again. I turned around. Some of the kids looked like they were gonna cry too. Sheesh, get a grip! I mean, the bird was still alive. Rappy showed off his feathers. He must have been four feet from wing to wing. Squawk! Squawk! squawked Rappy.

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He's intimidating! whispered Andrea, who likes to show off by saying big words. And scary! whispered Emily. They had raptors in that movie Jurassic Park, I whispered to the girls. One of them ripped some guy's head off while he was sitting on a toilet bowl. Stop trying to scare Emily, whispered Andrea. Rappy is my baby, Miss Suki said, and she gave Rappy a kiss on his beak. Isn't he beautiful? People who kiss birds are weird. Miss Suki told us that Rappy's talons Boys can't be beautiful. Boys can be handsome. Girls are beautiful. Especially girls like Mrs. Cooney, our school nurse. But not girls like Andrea.

are four inches long and as sharp as carving knives. If he wanted to, he could kill a lion, said Miss Suki. Wow! Michael shouted. Did you bring a lion, too? Yeah, Ryan said, we want to see Rappy kill it! Oh, Rappy is harmless, Miss Suki told us. He wouldn't hurt a fly. I wasn't worried about Rappy hurting flies. I was worried about Rappy flying away from Miss Suki's hand and using those talons to rip my head off. I'm sure he wouldn't hurt any of our students, said Mrs. Roopy. Until recently, peregrine falcons were

an endangered species, Miss Suki told us. Does anyone know what endangered means? Andrea's hand shot up in the air, of course. Any time anybody asks anything, Andrea's hand is always the first one to go up. Endangered means there aren't many of them left, Andrea said when she got called on. She was all proud of herself. Big deal. Any dumbhead knows what endangered means. That's right, said Miss Suki. Peregrine falcons almost became extinct in the 1960s. Does anybody know what extinct means?