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    Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake
    Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake
    Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake
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    Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake

    By Trudi Trueit and Jim Paillot

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    Fourth grader Scab McNally has a real quandary on his hands. During a fishing expedition with his two best friends and new favorite doggy companion, golden retriever Joe, he's convinced that he glimpsed some kind of swamp creature. All Scab needs to do is get permission to go back out on Beeson's Lake with another fishing rod (and some special handcrafted dinosaur-spying inventions, of course!) and he'll be able to find proof. But before she'll let him back out on the water, Scab's mom insists that he pass the swimming class he's being forced to take with his "smart times ten" twin sister Isabelle. That means Scab has to master swimming in the super deep end of the pool, and Scab is NOT ready for that! So, it's back to his top secret lab to diagram some special schemes and plans for the occasion. Will any of them go awry? Well, it wouldn't be any fun if they didn't, would it?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateMar 22, 2011
    ISBN9781416998778
    Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake
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    Trudi Trueit

    Trudi Trueit knew she’d found her life’s passion after writing (and directing) her first play in fourth grade. Since then, she’s been a newspaper journalist, television news reporter and anchor, media specialist, freelance writer, and is now a children’s book author. She has published more than forty fiction and nonfiction titles for young readers and lives near Seattle, Washington.

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    • 3/5
      This was a cute book. Scab is dying to go on a fishing trip with his uncle over the summer. His parents insist he take a swim class. The problem is he will be required to swim in the deep end of the pool. This is something that absolutely terrifies him. Deep water, diving, enchiladas are just a few things on his list of things he is afraid of. When he and his friends go fishing, and the big one snaps his pole, he is sure he has seen a dinosaur in the Lake. When his friends see the same thing they decide they must prove this. But, how do you prove something like this when you are grounded? This is a book that I think many kids will like because of the humor.

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    Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake - Trudi Trueit

    CHAPTER

    1

    Big Trouble at Little Creek

    Everyone’s already in the water, Scab. My mom is standing outside the boys’ locker room at the Little Creek Swim Club. I am standing in it. Scab? Are you in there?"

    No.

    Oops.

    Your class is starting.

    I don’t care.

    You’ll care plenty when you’re stuck on land this summer.

    Bug spit! Why did I make that dumb promise? I hate swimming. And I really hate swimming lessons. So why did I promise to take another session if my parents would let me go sturgeon fishing with Uncle Ant? Easy. I’d have said anything to get them to say yes to the fishing trip.

    You don’t want to fall off your uncle’s boat and drown because you didn’t practice treading, my mother calls. Her voice ping-pongs off the tiles. You don’t want to drown, do you?

    I take a long look at myself in the mirror.

    Scab?

    I’m thinking it over.

    I’m sure it isn’t that bad, Squiggle Bear.

    I shiver. And not just because she called me that nickname loud enough for the whole pool to hear. I look stupid, Mom.

    If you would have come to the mall with Isabelle and me . . .

    SCAB’S TIP #22

    WHILE WAITING FOR YOUR mom to shop, take all the clothes off the dummies. Pose the dummies so they are saluting the people that come off the escalator. Score bonus points: Stand next to the naked dummies and salute, too, while humming The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

    Shopping with my mother and twin sister is the worst torture ever. This is how it works: Isabelle takes a bunch of clothes into the dressing room. After a while, she runs out crying, Everything is so ugly. That’s when I say, Maybe it’s not the clothes, and get nailed with a hanger. Why do girls get so pruny over clothes anyway? I don’t care what I wear. As long as it’s dark blue. Dark blue trash bag? Okay by me.

    Do they fit, Scab?

    Yeah, but—

    "Then come on. We’ll work it out later."

    SCAB’S TIP #23

    KEEP YOUR CLOTHES ON during tip #22 or the security guard won’t let you back in the mall for a long time (trust me).

    Doesn’t she get it? Look at me. Just look at me! No, don’t. It’s too embarrassing. Let me wrap up in my dark blue beach towel. Okay, now you can look. I know, I’ve got skinny arms, but they can move fast if Lewis Pigford even thinks about snagging my double-fudge brownie at lunch. My legs are covered in bruises and scrapes from my daredevil stunts. See that patch of skin missing from my left knee? I did that on the Mighty Maze, the obstacle course that Doyle, Will Greenleaf, and I set up in my backyard.

    I was a human rocket. After blastoff I zigzagged through six stacks of paint cans, snake-slithered on my belly under the big tarp, and flew across the croc-infested water trap without so much as dipping a toe into water (okay, there weren’t really any crocs in the kiddie pool). Once I scrambled over Joe’s doghouse, however, I ran into trouble—namely Joe. My yellow Labrador grabbed my foot. As usual, Joe wanted to play. I wanted to finish. I did better on my second try. I set a new world-record time of 22.5 seconds. I am the Mighty Maze king! But that was yesterday. Nineteen and a half hours ago. Forever ago.

    My best friend, Doyle Ferguson, peers around the corner into the locker room. He’s dripping wet. You comin’ out this century, Scab, or not? He’s talking loudly, which means my mother sent him in here after me.

    I hold my towel tighter. Not.

    Cool by me, he says in a normal voice. He yanks on the string of his black swim trunks. Plain, black trunks. Lucky guy.

    Give me a sec to make it look like I tried to talk you out, says Doyle. Then I’ll tell Ashlynn.

    Who?

    Our swim teacher. She’s in high school. He grins. "High school."

    It’s going to take a lot more than a cute older girl to get me out there.

    I’ll tell Ashlynn you’re afraid of the water—

    Am not, I say. I can swim better than anybody out there.

    Even me?

    Even you. And he knows it too.

    Even your sister? We both know nobody does anything better than Isabelle.

    I puff out my chest. Especially her.

    Prove it.

    I watch myself deflate. I’d . . . uh . . . rather not.

    "Are you kidding? The guy who flew ten feet, nine inches over Alec’s Super Colossal Dirt Bike Ramp, the guy who burned through the Mighty Maze in twenty-three seconds, the guy who ate a wad of dryer lint—"

    TOP SECRET!

    SCAB’S PERSONAL 411

    Enter Password: __________ ACCESS DENIED

    Enter Password: __________ ACCESS DENIED

    Enter Password: __________ I’ll let it go this time.

                                          ACCESS GRANTED

    SCAB’S FEARS

    Twenty-two and a half seconds, I correct. And I’m telling you, I can’t go out there.

    Why not?

    Because.

    "Because why? Are you a fraidy cat?"

    No. I am starting to feeling warm.

    Then why? Meow, meow—

    Just because. I grit my teeth.

    Meow. Me-oooooow. He sounds like Will’s cat, Mayonnaise, before they got him fixed. The cat, I mean. Not Will. Doyle holds his arms up and lets his wrists go limp like paws. He claws the air. Meow, meow. Why, Scab?

    Because—

    "Why? Meee—"

    "Because THIS!" I let go of the towel.

    —yooow. Doyle’s jaw drops.

    He cannot believe it.

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