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    Annika Riz, Math Whiz
    Annika Riz, Math Whiz
    Annika Riz, Math Whiz
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    Annika Riz, Math Whiz

    By Claudia Mills and Rob Shepperson

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    Annika Riz loves math more than anything, so when she hears about a sudoku contest at the local public library, she is determined to win it—maybe then her friends Kelsey Green and Izzy Barr will see that math is just as cool as reading and running. When the school carnival, the biggest fundraiser of the year, comes around, Annika realizes her class booth is losing money by selling their lemonade too cheaply. Annika embraces her math skills, saves the day, and shows her friends that math can be useful and even a bit of fun, too, in Claudia Mills's Annika Riz, Math Whiz.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 13, 2014
    ISBN9780374303365
    Annika Riz, Math Whiz
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    Claudia Mills

    Claudia Mills is the acclaimed author of many books for children including the Franklin School Friends children's book series, including Cody Harmon, King of Pets and Simon Ellis, Spelling Bee Champ. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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      Wow that's awesome and great. I would like to be Annika and enter a sudoku contest
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      A book that is a cheerleader for math? This is it.

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    Annika Riz, Math Whiz - Claudia Mills

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    Annika Riz sharpened her already sharp pencil. She admired its soft pink eraser. She never made mistakes during math—well, hardly ever—but it was good to have a pencil with a fresh eraser just in case. In five minutes—no, four and a half minutes now—it would be her favorite time of the day, which happened to be the least favorite time of the day for her two best friends, Kelsey Green and Izzy Barr.

    Math!

    All right, class, time for math! Mrs. Molina told her third graders.

    Sitting in front of Annika, Kelsey gave a deep sigh and tried to finish reading one more page of her library book. Sitting next to Kelsey, Izzy sighed, too. She had been staring out the window at the P.E. field, green on this first Monday morning of May.

    Kelsey loved reading and Izzy loved running the same way that Annika loved math. But Annika didn’t hate reading and running the same way that the others hated math. It was hard when your two best friends hated the thing that you loved the most in the world.

    At his perfectly tidy desk, Simon Ellis sat with his math book open, ready to go. Simon was a math whiz, too. Simon was an everything whiz.

    The only person without a math book on top of his desk was Cody Harmon. Cody hardly ever paid attention in class.

    As Mrs. Molina prepared to launch into the day’s math lesson, her gaze fell on Cody.

    Math time, Cody, she said.

    Yes, Annika thought. Math time, everybody!

    When Cody still didn’t take out his book, Mrs. Molina asked, What is it, Cody?

    She sounded impatient, as if she really wanted to ask, "What is it now?" Annika didn’t blame her. Every day there was someone who was reading during math time (Kelsey), or stretching her leg muscles during math time (Izzy), or doing nothing at all during math time (Cody).

    I heard there’s going to be a dunking tank at the carnival on Saturday, Cody said. And that people can buy tickets to dunk Mr. Boone.

    Now the classroom was abuzz. Everyone obviously thought a dunking tank at the upcoming Franklin School carnival was more exciting than learning about decimals. Especially if it was the jolly principal, Mr. Boone, who was volunteering to be dunked.

    That’s nice, Cody, Mrs. Molina said, although it was plain from the expression on her face that she didn’t think a dunking tank was nice at all.

    I heard that some of the teachers are signing up to be dunked, too, Cody continued.

    Mrs. Molina adjusted her glasses, in the way she always did when she wasn’t sure what to say. Annika knew that Mrs. Molina was the last teacher in the school—in the whole entire world—who would sign up to be dunked at a school carnival.

    This time Mrs. Molina didn’t say that was nice.

    The school carnival is always enjoyable, I’m sure, she said. And it’s the most important fund-raiser of the year for the PTA. But right now we’re doing math. So, Cody, please get out your math book and open it to page 187.

    Cody fumbled in his desk, dragged out his book, and opened it as instructed. Annika could tell that he was still thinking about the dunking tank, and probably also about cotton candy, and a fishpond where you could fish for prizes, and the raffle where the prize was an enormous stuffed elephant donated by a local toy store, already sitting in the front hall outside Mr. Boone’s office.

    Each class was going to have its own booth at the fair. Mrs. Molina’s class booth, supervised by Kelsey’s mom, who was their PTA room mother, was going to sell all different kinds of cookies. Annika, Kelsey, and Izzy had already decided that they would bake chocolate

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