5 A GHOSTLY WARNING

CHAPTER 5 A GHOSTLY WARNING Kaz grabbed the bead and squeezed it in his hand. "Mom!" he called, looking all around. "MOM!" Kaz swam back under the curtain, through the cafetorium, and out into the hallway. "MOM! It's me, Kaz. Where are you?" "Did you find her?" Claire asked as she joined Kaz in the hallway. There weren't any other solids around, so Kaz could talk freely. "No, but I found this." He opened his hand so Claire could see the ghost

第五章幽灵般的警告卡兹抓住那颗头，捏在手里。 “妈妈！”他环顾四周，喊道。 “妈妈!”和子游回帘子下，穿过礼堂，来到走廊。 “妈妈!是我，卡兹。你在哪儿？”“你找到她了吗？”克莱尔和卡兹一起在走廊里问。 周围没有其他固体，所以卡兹可以自由地说话。 “没有，但我找到了这个。”他张开手，好让克莱尔看到鬼魂

bead. "It's from my mom's necklace." Claire's eyes grew large. "Where did you find it?" "Up by the ceiling on the other side of that curtain." Claire's eyes grew even larger. "That's where Jonathan saw the ghost yesterday. He must have seen your mom." "I think so, too," Kaz said. Claire grinned. "Well, don't just hover here in the hallway. Go find her!" "Okay!" Kaz said. He put the bead in his pocket and swam away.

珠。“这是我妈妈的项链上的。” 克莱尔睁大了眼睛。“你在哪儿找到的？”“在窗帘另一边的天花板上。” 克莱尔的眼睛变得更大了。 “那就是乔纳森昨天看到鬼的地方。 他一定看到你妈妈了。” “我也这么认为。”和子说。 克莱尔笑了。“好吧，别在走廊里徘徊了。 去找她！”“好吧!”Kaz说。 他把那颗珠子放进口袋，游走了。

"Mom?" he called as he swam up one hallway and down another. "Mom? Are you here?" But his mom didn't come out when Kaz called her. And Kaz couldn't find her anywhere. He checked all the classrooms a second time. He checked the library. He checked the bathrooms. Even the bathrooms that said GIRLS on the door. He called for his mom again and again. But he never found her. Or any other ghost. That could mean only one thing: His mom wasn't at Claire's school anymore. So, where did she go? Kaz wondered. Did she accidentally blow into the Outside through an open window? Did Jonathan scare her away? Or did she go into the Outside on purpose? Maybe she was searching for Kaz and the rest of their family just like Kaz was. Maybe she went into the Outside because she wanted the wind to carry her to another building. A loud bell rang. Classroom doors banged open and kids poured into the hallways. Kaz really

“妈妈？”他一边在走廊里游来游去一边喊。 “妈妈?你在这儿吗？”但是当卡兹打电话给他妈妈时，她没有出来。 卡兹到处都找不到她。 他又检查了一遍所有的教室。 他查了图书馆。他检查了浴室。 就连浴室门上都写着女生。 他一遍又一遍地喊他妈妈。 但他一直没有找到她。或者其他鬼魂。 这只能说明一件事：他妈妈不在克莱尔的学校了。 那么，她去哪儿了？Kaz很好奇。 她是不是不小心从开着的窗户吹进了外面？ 乔纳森把她吓跑了吗？ 还是她是故意去外面的？ 也许她在寻找卡兹和他们的家人就像卡兹一样。 也许她去外面是因为她想让风把她带到另一栋楼。 铃声响了。教室的门砰地一声打开，孩子们涌进走廊。 Kaz真的

hated those bells. He swam to the ceiling so no one would accidentally pass through him. He wrapped his hand around the ghost bead in his pocket. School was done for the day. Kaz glided along the ceiling until he found Claire. She was by her locker, putting papers into her bag. Claire smiled at Kaz. She turned her back to all the kids in the hall and whispered to Kaz, "Did you find your mom?" Kaz shook his head. "I don't think she's here anymore," he said glumly. "I'm sorry," Claire said. Kaz held the ghost bead in his hand and gazed out the big cafetorium windows into the Outside. He'd been so close to finding his mom. So close. He didn't dare go into the Outside to look for her. Who knew where the wind would carry him? It was bad enough that he'd lost his family. He

讨厌那些铃铛。他游到天花板上，这样就不会有人不小心从他身上穿过去。 他用手抓住口袋里的鬼头。 今天放学了。 卡兹沿着天花板滑行，直到找到克莱尔。 她在储物柜旁，把文件放进包里。 克莱尔对卡兹笑了笑。她转身背对着大厅里所有的孩子，小声问卡兹：“你找到你妈妈了吗？”卡兹摇了摇头。 “我想她已经不在这儿了，”他闷闷不乐地说。 “对不起，”克莱尔说。和子手里拿着鬼头，从大礼堂的窗户往外看。 他差一点就找到他妈妈了。 如此接近。他不敢到外面去找她。 谁知道风会把他吹到哪里去？ 他失去家人已经够糟糕的了。 他

didn't want to lose Claire, too. Instead, Kaz drifted around the cafetorium and watched the kids who were working on the play. They had divided themselves into two groups: (1) performers and (2) backstage workers. Claire sat with the performers. They had pushed two big tables together and were reading their parts out loud. The backstage workers sat around another table and talked about the props they would need and the sets they would build and how they would build them. Mr. Hartshorn strolled back and forth between the two groups. "We need a sword," said a boy in a red shirt. He was one of the backstage workers. "A sword?" A girl with a ponytail tilted her head at him. "What for?" "For Jack to fight the giant!" the boy replied. "Duh!" "We also need a house for Jack and his mom," another girl said. She turned to Mr. Hartshorn.

我不想再失去克莱尔了 与此相反，和子在餐厅里闲逛，看着正在写剧本的孩子们。 他们把自己分成两组：(1)表演者和(2)后台工作人员。 克莱尔和表演者坐在一起。 他们把两张大桌子推在一起，大声念着自己的台词。 后台的工作人员围坐在另一张桌子旁，谈论着他们需要的道具、他们要搭建的布景以及他们如何搭建这些道具。 哈茨香先生在两组人之间来回踱步。 “我们需要一把剑，”一个穿红衬衫的男孩说。 他是后台工作人员之一。 “剑?”一个扎马尾的女孩向他歪了歪头。 “什么?”“为了杰克和巨人战斗！”男孩回答。 “咄!”“我们还需要给杰克和他妈妈买一所房子，”另一个女孩说。 她转向哈茨霍恩先生。

"Could we use that same house we used for Hansel and Gretel? I saw the pieces for it backstage." "Sure, Kenya," Mr. Hartshorn said. "We've used that house in several different plays. I'll set it up onstage before our next rehearsal." "We need a beanstalk, too," said a boy with glasses. "It shouldn't be hard to make one. We just need a pole. We can cut a bunch of leaves out of green construction paper and tape them to the pole. Then voilà! We have a beanstalk." "Good idea, Ethan," said Mr. Hartshorn. "Is anyone writing all this down?" "I can," said the girl with the ponytail. She grabbed a notebook from under her chair. "Thanks, Gia," said Mr. Hartshorn. "I'll make the sword!" said the boy in the red

“我们可以用我们用来制作《韩赛尔和格蕾特》的房子吗？” 我在后台看到了它的片段。” “当然，肯尼亚，”哈茨霍恩说。 “我们在几部不同的剧中都用过那座房子。 下次排练之前，我会把它放在舞台上。” “我们还需要一根豆茎，”一个戴眼镜的男孩说。 “制作一个应该不难。 我们只需要一根杆子。我们可以用绿色的建筑纸剪一堆叶子，把它们粘在杆子上。 然后瞧!我们有一棵豆茎。” “好主意，伊桑，”哈茨霍恩先生说。 “有人把这些都记下来了吗？”“我能，”扎马尾的女孩说。 她从椅子底下抓起一本笔记本。 “谢谢你，吉娅。”哈茨霍恩先生说。 “我来做剑！”穿红衣服的男孩说