1 Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Just about every kid in America wished they could be Kyle Keeley. Especially when he zoomed across their TV screens as a flaming squirrel in a holiday commercial for Squirrel Squad Six, the hysterically crazy new Lemoncello video game. Kyle's friends Akimi Hughes and Sierra Russell were also in that commercial. They thumbed controllers and tried to blast Kyle out of the sky. He dodged every rubber band, coconut custard pie, mud clod, and wadded-up sock ball they flung his way.

第一章几乎每个美国孩子都希望自己能成为凯尔·基利。 尤其是当他作为一只燃烧的松鼠出现在他们的电视屏幕上，出现在《松鼠小队6》(squirrel Squad Six)的假日广告中，这是一款疯狂至极的柠檬大提琴(Lemoncello)新电子游戏。 凯尔的朋友阿基米·休斯和塞拉·拉塞尔也出演了那则广告。 他们摆弄着控制器，想把凯尔炸飞。 他躲开了他们扔过来的每一个橡皮筋、椰子蛋奶派、泥块和揉成一团的袜子球。

It was awesome. In the commercial for Mr. Lemoncello's See Ya, Wouldn't Want to Be Ya board game, Kyle starred as the yellow pawn. His head became the bubble tip at the top of the playing piece. Kyle's buddy Miguel Fernandez was the green pawn. Kyle and Miguel slid around the life-size game like hockey pucks. When Miguel landed on the same square as Kyle, that meant Kyle's pawn had to be bumped back to the starting line. "See ya!" shouted Miguel. "Wouldn't want to be ya!" Kyle was yanked up off the ground by a hidden cable and hurled backward, soaring above the board. It was also awesome. But Kyle's absolute favorite starring role was in the commercial for Mr. Lemoncello's You Seriously Can't Say That game, where the object was to get your teammates to guess the word on your card without using any of the forbidden words listed on the same card.

太棒了。在莱蒙切罗先生的棋盘游戏《看你，不想成为你》的广告中，凯尔扮演了黄色的棋子。 他的头变成了乐器顶端的泡泡尖。 凯尔的朋友米格尔·费尔南德斯是绿色的棋子。 凯尔和米格尔在真人大小的游戏中像冰球一样滑来滑去。 当米格尔和凯尔落在同一个方格上时，这意味着凯尔的小兵必须被撞回起跑线。 “再见!”米格尔喊道。“我可不想成为你!”凯尔被一根隐藏的缆绳拉离地面，向后一甩，飞到木板上方。 它也很棒。但凯尔最喜欢的主演角色是莱蒙切罗先生的《You Seriously Can’t Say That》游戏的广告，这个游戏的目标是让你的队友猜出你卡片上的单词，而不要使用同一张卡片上列出的任何禁止使用的单词。

Akimi, Sierra, Miguel, and the perpetually perky Haley Daley sat on a circular couch and played the guessers. Kyle stood in front of them as the clue giver. "Salsa," said Kyle. "Nachos!" said Akimi. A buzzer sounded. Akimi's guess was wrong. Kyle tried again. "Horseradish sauce!" "Something nobody ever eats," said Haley. Another buzzer. Kyle goofed up and said one of the forbidden words: "Ketchup!" SPLAT! Fifty gallons of syrupy, goopy tomato sauce slimed him from above. It oozed down his face and dribbled off his ears. Everybody laughed. So Kyle, who loved being the class clown almost as much as he loved playing (and winning) Mr. Lemoncello's wacky games, went ahead and read the whole list of banned words as quickly as he could. "Mustard-mayonnaise-pickle-relish."

阿基米、西拉、米格尔和总是兴高采烈的哈利·戴利坐在一张圆形沙发上玩猜人游戏。 凯尔站在他们面前，给他们提供线索。 “萨尔萨舞，”凯尔说。“玉米片!”明美说。 蜂鸣器响了。明美的猜测是错误的。 凯尔又试了一次。“辣根酱!”“没人吃过的东西。”哈利说。 另一个蜂鸣器。凯尔犯了一个错误，说了一个禁忌词:“番茄酱!”长条木板!五十加仑粘稠的番茄酱从上面浇到他身上。 它从他的脸上淌下来，从他的耳朵上滴落下来。 每个人都笑了。凯尔喜欢做班上的小丑，就像他喜欢玩莱蒙切罗先生的古怪游戏(并赢得游戏)一样，他继续以最快的速度阅读了整个禁词列表。 “Mustard-mayonnaise-pickle-relish。”

SQUOOSH! He was drenched by buckets of yellow glop, white sludge, and chunky green gunk. The slop slid along his sleeves, trickled into his pants, and puddled on the floor. His four friends busted a gut laughing at Kyle, who was soaked in more "condiments" (the word on his card) than a mile-long hot dog. "Was it fun?" boomed an off-camera announcer. "Fun?" answered Haley. "Hello? It's a Lemoncello!" That's how all the commercials ended, with Haley saying the slogan "Hello? It's a Lemoncello!" She became a TV superstar. People all across America wished they could be Haley Daley, too. Except, of course, for the kids who were extremely jealous of her and wondered why she, Kyle Keeley, Akimi Hughes, Sierra Russell, and Miguel Fernandez had been chosen to star in Mr. Lemoncello's holiday commercials. When they found out that becoming famous TV stars was the prize the five kids had won in a game played at Mr. Lemoncello's incredible new

压扁!他浑身被一桶桶黄色的污泥、白色的污泥和大块绿色的粘稠物浸透了。 泔水顺着他的袖子滑了下去，流进了他的裤子里，在地板上淌了一滩水。 他的四个朋友拼命地嘲笑凯尔，因为他身上的“调味品”(他名片上的词)比一英里长的热狗还多。 “好玩吗?”一位镜头外的播音员大声问道。 “好玩?”哈利回答。“喂? 这是柠檬酒!”所有的广告都是这样结束的，海莉说了一句口号“喂?” 这是柠檬酒!”她成了电视明星。 全美国的人都希望自己也能成为海莉·戴利。 当然，除了那些极度嫉妒她的孩子们，他们不知道为什么她、凯尔·基利(Kyle Keeley)、阿基米·休斯(Akimi Hughes)、塞拉·拉塞尔(Sierra Russell)和米格尔·费尔南德斯(Miguel Fernandez)会被选中出演莱蒙塞罗先生的节日广告。 当他们发现成为著名的电视明星是五个孩子在莱蒙切罗先生令人难以置信的新店里玩的游戏中赢得的奖品时

library in Alexandriaville, Ohio—a game they hadn't been invited to play—they started demanding a rematch.

这是一场他们没有被邀请参加的比赛，他们开始要求重赛。