Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway (29 page)

So while Cricket's whipping around the store, tossing one thing after another into her basket, I'm trailing behind her going, “But I, um … I don't know if I can…. Cricket … ? Hey, Cricket! Hold on a minute…. Cricket?”

But there's no stopping this girl. When she's done filling up her basket, she grabs me by the arm and yanks me toward the checkout line. “Come on! There's a ton to do before tomorrow!”

“You're leaving
tomorrow
?”

“
We're
leaving tomorrow.”

I didn't really want to, but I
was
desperate to do something,
anything
, besides hang around the mall.

So yeah, I was doomed.

I was
so
doomed.

Published by Yearling an imprint of Random House Children's Books a division of Random House, Inc. New York

Text copyright © 2005 by Wendelin Van Draanen Parsons

Illustrations copyright © 2005 by Dan Yaccarino

“Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)” from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN at Disneyland Park and Magic Kingdom Park. Words by Xavier Atencio. Music by George Bruns © 1967 Walt Disney Music Company. Copyright renewed. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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eISBN: 978-0-307-54499-5

May 2007

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