10. Miss Janey Is Brainy!

10 Miss Janey Is Brainy! Arlo was flat on his back with his eyes closed. "Somebody get the camp doctor!" Miss Janey shouted. "Do you want me to give Arlo mouth-to-mouth resuscitation?" I asked. "I took a CPR class last year—" "I don't think that will be necessary, Andrea" she said.

In a few seconds Arlo's eyes fluttered open. We all picked him up off the floor. "Dude, you were totally out!" said Alexia. "You looked like you were dead, A.J.," said Ryan. "It was cool!"

"I was having a dream," Arlo mumbled. "There were these penguins. They wanted me to come with them to Antarctica." "You'll be fine," said Miss Janey. "We need to get back to work. There are only a few days left before school starts, and we have so much to accomplish." "Let me get this straight," Arlo said. "This camp is sort of like... school?" "Exactly!" said Miss Janey. "You're going to have so much fun when we do the Math Olympics, and Vocabulary Volleyball, and Science Challenge, and Social Studies—" "You gotta be kidding me," Arlo said. "I told you," said Michael. "They should call this place Torture Camp." "Well, I think back-to-school camp is a great idea!" I said. "I love learning new things. And you can never be too prepared for school."

"I agree," said Emily. "That's the spirit!" said Miss Janey. "Let's get to work!" For the rest of the morning, Miss Janey gave us reading drills and spelling drills and math drills and history drills and just about every other kind of drill you could think up. It was fun! She knows so much about every subject in the world. Miss Janey is brainy! The next day at camp was Crazy Clothes Day, where everybody had to dress up in silly clothes. I wore a pink baseball cap that had a little propeller on the top. We spent a lot of time doing math drills. The day after that was Purple Day, where everybody had to wear something purple. I wore a purple scarf, and we spent the whole day learning about geography and volcanoes and neat things like that.

I was sad that the next day was going to be the last day of camp. I had learned a lot of things that would help me get good grades in school and go to Harvard and get a good job someday. "Tomorrow is Opposite Day," Miss Janey told us before our parents came to pick us up. "So be sure to think backward and do everything opposite tomorrow." The next day everybody had on backward baseball caps, and they were

walking backward and wearing their clothes inside out and stuff like that. We learned lots of new things from Miss Janey. When I grow up, I hope I will be as smart as she is. At lunch the other kids were complaining, as always. "I can't wait until the end of the day," Arlo said. "This place is horrible." "We work hard all year long," said Alexia. "I thought summer was our time to have fun." "We should bust out of this joint," said Michael. "We should get some spoons and use them to dig a tunnel to freedom. Then we could make a break for it. I saw that in a movie once." "Digging a tunnel would probably take all year," said Ryan. "Camp is over in a few hours." "What if we used serving spoons?" asked