Recycled: Part 2

By SANDY McKAY, Illustrator JENNA PACKER

One day she stood at the top of her desk and screamed - really loud like she was going for the world screaming record - with her mouth open wide and her tonsils flapping up and down like in a comic book.

Ryan Hallimore got so scared he raced over to the principal's office for help and the principal, whose name is Mr Spittle, had to coax poor old Frizell down from the desk and take her off for a cup of tea. Well, that's what Willy Hawker said and he should know because he was watching from outside the staffroom window when the tea was poured. By climbing on top of Charlie Webster who'd climbed on top of Shelly Cook he'd managed to get a real good view.

But Mr Read had just had a holiday. I know that for a fact because my best friend Byron Banks had seen him floating on a lilo on Lake Waihola. Byron was having his holidays there and he saw Mr Read three times in a week. Once, floating on the lilo, once crawling out of a blue and white striped tent with a lady in a bikini and once heating up some baked beans in the camp kitchen.

Publisher: Longacre Press, $14.95 Age group: 9-14 years