8 Zombie Problem in Monkey Park

ZOMBIE PROBLEM IN MONKEY PARK

On Thursday, Camp Flaming Arrow got even bigger. Dino from Pancake Court came with Sophie W. He was supposed to be in Animal Adventures Camp, but Animal Adventures Camp had turned out to be going to the zoo. He had already been to the zoo three times that week, and he was tired of it. "I don't want to do anything with animals," said Dino. "I don't even want to think about an animal." "You might have to think about Komodo dragons," called Juanito from inside the tent. He was hiding from his coach again. "They don't poop!" yelled Harlan. "Enough chitchat!" said Bean, just like a real counselor. "No animals. Today we will be studying first aid." First aid was on the Girl Power 4-Ever list. "And here is Counselor Ivy, to teach you important first aid tips." First aid was fun. Ivy had brought her face paint, and they used up almost all the red. Red was the blood.

She had brought another old curtain, cut up. Those were the bandages. All the campers needed lots of bandages. "I think he'd better take some CPR," said Bean the doctor. "His condition is serious." Harlan groaned. He was a very good groaner. "One-twelve over five in the plexercarpaloo," said Franny. She gave Harlan a fake shot. He groaned. By the time Leo got away from soccer camp,

they were all covered with fake blood and bandages. He told them about a kind of first aid called the Heimlich Maneuver. When someone was choking, you pounded his stomach in just the right way, and whatever was choking him flew out of his mouth and landed across the room. That was fun. Disgusting, but fun. They played Heimlich Maneuver for a long time, and then Dino had a great idea. Since they were already covered in fake blood, they could be zombies. They zombied around Monkey Park with their arms stretched out in front of them. By mistake, they zombied right through Puppet Fun! "Now, boys and girls, we pull the yarn with our special needle, very, very carefully through the paper," the counselor was saying. "UUNNN-huh!" moaned Bean the zombie. "Hey!" said the counselor. "Oops," said Bean, unzombieing. "Sorry." But it was too late. Most of the Puppet Fun! campers turned into zombies on the spot. "Now stop that!" said the counselor. "This is

Puppet Fun!" "Sorry!" said Bean. She backed toward Camp Flaming Arrow, but three new zombies ran after her. By four o'clock in the afternoon, Monkey Park had a real zombie problem.

"We haven't done great women of history," whispered Bean into the phone that night. She was reading the Girl Power 4-Ever paper. "Is that the only one we haven't done?" whispered Ivy, even though she didn't live with Nancy so there was no reason for her to whisper. "There's drama, but I think being zombies could count as drama, don't you?" Bean said. "And I still don't know what a social skill is." "It's not in the dictionary," Ivy said. "I