7 Ch7-Miss Lazar's Secret Identity

Chapter 7 Miss Lazar's Secret Identity The next day that kid Robbie who sits in front of me didn't come to school again. Miss Daisy told us he had chicken pox, which is a dumb disease that makes no sense because you can get it even if you never touch a chicken. After we finished pledging the

allegiance, we made get-well cards for Robbie. Andrea made a picture of a smil- ing Robbie with butterflies and flowers around him. I made a picture of Robbie sword fighting with a chicken and chop- ping its head off. While we were drawing our pictures,

we started talking about Miss Lazar. "Do you think Miss Lazar is a real superhero?" Ryan asked. "Well, she did kill the ghost in the toilet," Michael said. "So we know she has super powers." "She's got a uniform with letters on it too," I said. "Superheroes always wear cool uniforms." "They always have a secret place they go when they need to be alone," said Ryan. "Miss Lazar has a secret room down in the basement." I didn't think Andrea and her little nosy girlfriends were listening to us, but of course they were.

"You boys are silly dumbheads," said Andrea. "Miss Lazar isn't a superhero." "Yeah," agreed Emily. "She's just a cus- todian." Andrea thinks she knows everything. But I bet I know a whole lot more about superheroes than she does, because I have lots of superhero comic books at home. And I was sure that Miss Lazar was a superhero. "Maybe Miss Lazar isn't a custodian at all," I said. "Did you ever think of that? Superheroes always have a secret iden- tity. Like Superman is really Clark Kent, and Batman is really Bruce Wayne, and Spider-Man is really Peter Parker.

Maybe being a custodian is just Miss Lazar's secret identity." "Yeah," said Ryan. "And maybe Robbie doesn't really have chicken pox, either. Maybe he's locked in the secret room in Miss Lazar's office, Stuff like that happens all the time, you know." "Maybe Robbie was the kid who put the crayons down the toilet," I said. "Maybe he got caught. Miss Lazar told us she keeps the bad kids in the secret room." "Stop trying to scare Emily!" said Andrea.

"Remember last year when that kid Steven moved away?" Michael asked. "Maybe he didn't move away at all. Maybe he was bad. Maybe Steven and Robbie are locked in the secret room in Miss Lazar's office." "We've got to do something!" said Emily, and she went running out of the class. Emily is weird. Miss Daisy collected our cards and told us to clean off our desks because it was time for math. I hate math. We are learn- ing multiplication, which makes no sense at all. "Miss Daisy, I don't understand the three times table," this girl named Annette said.