1. Three Months of Recess!

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1 Three Months of Recess!

My name is A.J. and I hate ghosts. Ghosts are creepy! They're always following you around, pestering you, and haunting your house. They like to make scary noises in the middle of the night to freak people out. I guess they have nothing better to do with their time. When I drop dead someday, I'm not going to bother people or scare them by making noises in the middle of the night. I'm just going to sit around playing video games. That would be a great life. I mean, death. When I was a little kid, I was sure there was a ghost living in my bedroom closet. I couldn't sleep at night. So my parents took out the vacuum cleaner and sucked up the ghost. It was like Ghostbusters! But I never go into my closet anymore. And I'm never going to use the vacuum cleaner, because

there's a ghost inside it. Just kidding! I'm a big guy now, and I don't believe in ghosts anymore. I don't know why I started talking about ghosts in the first place. There won't be anything else in this book about ghosts. I promise. What I really want to talk about is the summer. Summer is going to be here soon, and it's my favorite time of the year. Why? Because we don't have to go to school in the summer, of course. Think about it—three whole months with no school! That's about ninety days. I worked it out on a calculator. Ninety days is 2,160 hours; 2,160 hours is 129,600 minutes; 129,600 minutes is 7,776,000 seconds—more than seven million seconds! That's a lot of time! And I'm not going to waste any of those seconds. Summer is still a few months away, but I

believe in advance planning. So here's my plan for this coming summer. I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget.... Go swimming. Eat ice cream.* Play ball. Lie in the grass. Go to the beach.

Catch fireflies. Watch TV. Play video games. Throw Frisbees. Have water balloon fights. Play Ping-Pong. Peel off my sunburned skin. Eat more ice cream. Hang out with my friends Ryan, Michael, Neil, and Alexia. Eat candy.