here?”
“They were filling me in on the smoke bomb,” Mrs. Norton said. “These things happen, I guess. Boys will be boys. Now they’re going to go to the kitchen and get something to eat. Isn’t there some double chocolate-fudge ice cream in the freezer?”
Cody dropped his arm from Hayden’s shoulders and walked back to the kitchen, Hayden following.
“I wouldn’t mind if you came over to hang out,” Hayden said.
“Okay,” Cody answered. “I’m here until Grandma gets better. We should make the most of it.”
He looked at the kitchen clock. It wouldn’t be long before Jake would be walking onstage in the club.He’d stand in the spotlight at the mike, and he’d use Cody’s joke.
Cody thought,
If I were a stand-up comic
…
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. You’re a fine-looking group. Of course, you can’t tell much from the way people look. Take me, for instance. You might not guess that during the week, I’m a district attorney in Santa Olivia. But tonight at open-mike, I’m Cody Carter, stand-up comic, and I want to talk to you about my cousin Hayden.
You don’t get to choose cousins. You have to take what you get. Having a cousin is sort of like having a brother, except you don’t get a Christmas present from him, just a card. And you don’t get to tell him what you really think of him, because he comes with a pair of bodyguards called an aunt and uncle. And you have a cousin forever and ever, no refunds, no returns. So I’ve got Hayden. Okay, he’s taller than I am but he’s not so tough after all. I know how to beat him at his own game. I can tell him jokes that are so funny he laughs till he cries.
JOAN LOWERY NIXON has been called the grande dame of young adult mysteries. She is the author of more than 130 books for young readers and is the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel. She received the award for
The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
,
The Séance
,
The Name of the Game Is Murder
, and
The Other Side of Dark
, which also won the California Young Reader Medal.
“They were filling me in on the smoke bomb,” Mrs. Norton said. “These things happen, I guess. Boys will be boys. Now they’re going to go to the kitchen and get something to eat. Isn’t there some double chocolate-fudge ice cream in the freezer?”
Cody dropped his arm from Hayden’s shoulders and walked back to the kitchen, Hayden following.
“I wouldn’t mind if you came over to hang out,” Hayden said.
“Okay,” Cody answered. “I’m here until Grandma gets better. We should make the most of it.”
He looked at the kitchen clock. It wouldn’t be long before Jake would be walking onstage in the club.He’d stand in the spotlight at the mike, and he’d use Cody’s joke.
Cody thought,
If I were a stand-up comic
…
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. You’re a fine-looking group. Of course, you can’t tell much from the way people look. Take me, for instance. You might not guess that during the week, I’m a district attorney in Santa Olivia. But tonight at open-mike, I’m Cody Carter, stand-up comic, and I want to talk to you about my cousin Hayden.
You don’t get to choose cousins. You have to take what you get. Having a cousin is sort of like having a brother, except you don’t get a Christmas present from him, just a card. And you don’t get to tell him what you really think of him, because he comes with a pair of bodyguards called an aunt and uncle. And you have a cousin forever and ever, no refunds, no returns. So I’ve got Hayden. Okay, he’s taller than I am but he’s not so tough after all. I know how to beat him at his own game. I can tell him jokes that are so funny he laughs till he cries.
JOAN LOWERY NIXON has been called the grande dame of young adult mysteries. She is the author of more than 130 books for young readers and is the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel. She received the award for
The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
,
The Séance
,
The Name of the Game Is Murder
, and
The Other Side of Dark
, which also won the California Young Reader Medal.
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