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Read:\n\nThe Chicken Bone Wish  \n(Hardcover title:Joshua,The Czar and the Chicken Bone Wish)  \nby Barbara GirionThe Cybil Warby Betsy Byars  \nEncyclopedia Brown Carries Onby Donald J.Sobol  \nEncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eaglesby Donald J.SobolGoodbye,Chicken Littleby Betsy ByarsThe Pinballs  \nby Betsy ByarsMr:Wolf and Meby (Mary Francis Shura  \nBY  \nBETSY BYARSillustrated byRichard CuffariAN  \n⑧APPLEPAPERBACKSCHOLASTIC INC.  \nNew York Toronto London Auckland SydneyPEDIATRIC LIBRARY/KUNSBERG SCHOOLNATIONAL JEWISH CENTER1400 JACKSON STREET  \nDFNVER cO109AD080206  \nTHE FOLLOWING MATERIALIS COPYRIGHTED AND HAS BEEN USED BY PERMISSION:  \nPage 3,Dr:Pepper Company.Page 68,◎Burger King Corporation,1974;The Greyhound Corporation(Armour hotdogs).Page 73,The Coca-Cola Corporation and Coca-Cola LtdPage 74,General Foods Cor-poration:Log Cabin is a trademark of General Foods Corporaton;Quaker State Oil Refining Corporation;and Wm.Wrigley Jr:Com-pany.Copyright C1959 Wm.Wrigley Jr:Company.  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part,or stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or other-wise,without written permission of the publisher.For informationregarding permission,write to The Viking Press,40 West 23rdStreet,New York,NY 10011.  \nISBN 0-590-40535-7  \nCopyright ◎1976 by Betsy Bayers.Illustrations copyright ◎1976by Viking Penguin Inc.This edition is published by Scholastic Inc.,730 Broadway,New York,NY 10003,by arrangement with TheViking Press.  \n1211109876543216789/801/9  \n工  \nLennie was in front of the motel washing off thewalk with a hose.He directed the spray on a chew-ing-gum paper and some grass and twigs.He watched asthe trash went down the drain.  \nA truck passed on the highway,building up speed forthe hill ahead.Lennie glanced up.He watched until thetruck was out of sight.  \n“Aren't you through yet?”Lennie's mother called.“You've got to do your homework,remember?”  \nHe turned off the hose.“I’m through.”  \nHe started toward the office.At that moment his momturned on the neon sign,and it flashed red above his head.THE FAIRY LAND MoTEL—VACANCY.  \nLennie paused at the concrete wishing well.There wasa concrete elf on one side and,facing him,HumptyDumpty.With one hand on Humpty Dumpty's head,Lennie leaned forward and looked down into the wishingwell.On the blue painted bottom lay seven pennies,onenickel,and a crumpled Mound wrapper.  \nLennie walked on to the office.As he went inside,hepaused in front of the TV.  \nA game show was on,and there were five new carslined up on a revolving stage.The winning contestant gotto pick one of the cars,and if it started,he got to keep it.Only one of the cars was wired to start.  \n\"It's the Grand Am,\"Lennie said instantly.He felt hehad a special instinct for picking the right box or door orcar on shows like this.\"I know it's the Grand Am.\"  \n“Lennie,are you watching television?”his mothercalled from the utility room.  \n\"I'’m looking for a pencil,\"he called back.  \n“Well,there are plenty of pencils on the desk.”  \n“Where?Oh,yeah,I see one now.”  \nLennie was hoping to stall until he could see if it reallywas the Grand Am as he suspected.  \nThe contestant said he wanted to try for the Catalina.“No,the Grand Am,the Grand Am!”Lennie murmuredbeneath his breath.He found the stub of a pencil on thedesk and held it against his chest like a charm.  \n\"Lennie,I meant what I said about no television,\"hismom called.  \n\"I know you did.\"  \n\"No television at all until those grades pick up.\"  \n“I know.”  \nA commercial came on.\"Doc-tor Pep-per,so mis-un-  \nder-stoooooood.”  \n\"Me and Doctor Pepper,\"Lennie mumbled.He knewhe had sixty more seconds to stall now.“Where did yousay those pencils were?\"he called.  \n“On the desk.”  \nThe commercial ended,an","cbCaijVzqI9QKmw2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijVzqI9QKmw2","pdf",5035737,132,"English","# 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