1 DROP EVERYTHING!

IVY + BEAN BREAK THE FOSSIL RECORD by annie barrows

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DROP EVERYTHING! Boring. Boring! Boring! Bean turned her book upside down and tried to read it that way. Cool. Well, sort of cool. No. Boring. Bean sighed and turned her book back right side up. It was a book about cats that she had picked from the school library. There was a different cat on each page. Bean liked cats, but reading about them was driving her crazy. All the cats looked the same except the sphynx cat, who didn't have any fur. He looked halfway between a dog and a rat. Bean liked him the best. I bet Ivy's never seen a sphynx cat, thought Bean. She knew she wasn't

supposed to talk during Drop Everything and Read, so she poked Ivy in the ribs. Ivy's eyes were binging across the pages of her book. Bing, bing, bing. She looked like she was watching a Ping-Pong game. She didn't even notice Bean. So Bean poked her again. "Hey!" she whispered. "Earth to Ivy!" "Hmm?" Ivy mumbled. "Looky here! It's a dog-rat!" Bean whispered louder. Ivy looked for a little tiny second.

"Oh," she said and went back to reading. Bean sighed again. All the other kids in Ms. Aruba-Tate's second-grade classroom were bent over their books. Even Eric, who usually fell out of his chair two or three times during Drop Everything and Read, was quiet. He had a book about man- eating sharks. MacAdam was picking his nose. Bean raised her hand. Ms. Aruba-Tate didn't see because she was reading, too, so Bean called out, "Ms. Aruba-Tate!"

"Shhh," whispered Ms. Aruba-Tate. "What is it Bean?", "There's a problem, and it starts with M," began Bean, looking hard at MacAdam. "And then N and P." She wiggled her finger next to her nose, just in case Ms. Aruba- Tate needed an extra hint. Ms. Aruba-Tate looked at MacAdam, too. Then she put down her book and came over to Bean's table.