3. Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy!

3 Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy!

I didn't think much about the Presidents' Day Challenge until dismissal at three o'clock. The gang and me were about to head home when we saw Andrea and Emily sitting on the front steps of the school. I figured they like school so much, they didn't want to go home. "What are you doing here?" asked Ryan, who will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. "Emily and I are going to the media center after school today," Andrea said. "That's right," said Emily, who always agrees with everything Andrea says. The media center? Ugh. That's a horrible place that used to be called the library, but they changed the name because kids don't want to go to the library. You want to know why? Because it has lots of books in it! Books are boring.*

"Why are you going to the media center?" asked Alexia, who rides a skateboard all the time. "Mrs. Roopy said she'd help us learn about the presidents," Andrea told us. "The kids who know the most will get to be in the Presidents' Day Challenge." "So we can win the trip to DizzyLand!" added Emily. Wait. Only a few kids get to go to DizzyLand? I thought all of us would get to go. It wasn't fair! Well, I wasn't going to let Andrea win the trip to DizzyLand. When she got up to go to the media center, so did I. And so did Ryan, Neil, Michael, and Alexia. It's not like we had anything better to do after school anyway. When we got to the media center, our media specialist, Mrs. Roopy, was waiting

for us. But she didn't look like Mrs. Roopy.She's always dressing up like other people. One time she was Little Bo Peep. That was weird. Mrs. Roopy is loopy. This time, she was dressed up like some old guy, with dark hair and a dark suit and tie. "Who are you today, Mrs. Roopy?" asked Andrea. "Roopy?" said Mrs. Roopy in a low voice. "Never heard of her. My name is Ronald Reagan. I was the fortieth president. Before I was the president, I was a movie star. In one movie, my costar was a chimpanzee. The movie was called Bedtime for Bonzo." "So if they ask us which president acted in a movie with a chimp, we'll remember Ronald Reagan," said Andrea.

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"See?" said Mrs. Roopy. "You learned something about a president already." Ronald Roopy Reagan showed us a bunch of books about the presidents. Then he said we could use the computers to look up more stuff. Andrea and Emily rushed to the computer stations. "I love looking things up online," said Andrea. "Me too!" said Emily. "Ooooooh, did you know that four of our presidents were born in February?" asked Andrea. "Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, and William Henry Harrison." Andrea thinks she is so smart because she's a member of P.A.C. That stands for the Principal Advisory Committee—a group of nerds who get to boss around the principal. Looking up stuff about the presidents was boring. I decided to make an airplane