Missing Students

Missing Students

Drip . . . drip . . . drip . . . Chirp! Chirp! With her super hearing, Roxy heard lots of usual schoolsounds. She heard water dripping from the art room sink. She heard a cricket chirping in one of the kindergarten rooms. But she also heard something unexpected. It was a deep voice coming from under the school.

“ Work! Work! Work! “ growled the voice. ” Move faster! ” “ That's Mr. Sweeps! “ gasped Roxy. “ I knew I shouldn't trust him! ” Roxy ran down the stairs to the basement. She came to a pair oflocked doors. Roxy stared hard at the doors. Lasers shot out from her eyes.

Whiz-hoo! The doors blew apart, and Roxy ran through the opening. The basement was empty. Roxy glanced around and spotted a trapdoor. She rushed over and opened it. Roxy jumped down, landing in a large cavern. There, Roxy saw all the students hard at work.

Some were chipping away at the rock walls with pickaxes. Others were pushing wheelbarrows. “ Is this a mine?” Roxy wondered. She looked around some more. She saw one student pull something sparkly from the wall. “ Whoa! ” gasped Roxy.

“ This is a diamond mine! “ The students were all wearing the star buttons from Mr. Sweeps. Nobody looked at Rocket Girl. They were all too busy working. “ This is totally weird, ” Roxy said to herself. She saw Terrell. “ What's going on here?” Roxy called to him.