Free No Bones About It by Nancy Krulik Page A

then.”
    “That was months ago,” Suzanne reminded her. “And I was the one who sent the note in the first place. You were just answering me.”
    “How about the time Mr. Kane caught me with a cell phone?”
    Suzanne laughed. “Me again. It was my cell phone, remember? I brought it to school. You were just holding it when Mr. Kane walked into the cafeteria.”
    Katie looked across the aisle at Jeremy. “You don’t think I’m a goodie-goodie, do you?”
    Jeremy didn’t answer.
    “Jeremy,” Katie insisted.
    “It’s okay to be a goodie-goodie,” Jeremy said finally. “Everybody has to be something. George is funny. Kevin is the Tomato Man. I’m good at sports . . .”
    “I’m fashionable,” Suzanne added. “Mandy’s really smart. Zoe’s an artist . . .”
    “And you’re a goodie-goodie,” Jeremy finished. “It’s just who you are.”
    “We like you anyway,” Suzanne said.
    Katie frowned. Somehow, that didn’t make her feel any better.

Chapter 2
    As the bus rolled along, Katie stared out the window. She tried not to think about what her friends had said. But she couldn’t help it. Especially since George and Kevin kept whispering, “Goodie-goodie, goodie-goodie,” into her ear.
    Katie wanted to ask Mrs. Derkman to make them stop. But telling on the boys would only make her seem like more of a goodie-goodie.
    The truth was, George couldn’t be more wrong. Katie had actually gotten into trouble lately. Lots of trouble.
    In the past few months, Katie had wound up in the boys’ locker room, started a food fight in the cafeteria, and completely ruined Becky’s report on Cleopatra. She’d also wrecked part of Mrs. Derkman’s prized garden. George would have loved to have seen that!

    But none of Katie’s friends knew about the trouble she had gotten into.
    How could they?
    All those things had happened when Katie had magically turned into someone else. But Katie couldn’t tell her friends that. They never would believe her. Katie wouldn’t believe it either, if it hadn’t happened to her.
    But it really did happen. Katie Carew turned into other people . . . a lot!
    It all started one day at the beginning of the school year. Katie had lost the football game for her team, ruined her favorite pair of pants, and let out a big burp in front of the whole class. It was the worst day of Katie’s life. That night, Katie had wished she could be anyone but herself.
    There must have been a shooting star overhead when she had made that wish, because the very next day the magic wind came and turned Katie into Speedy the class hamster! Katie had escaped from the hamster cage, and wound up in the boys’ locker room, stuck inside George’s stinky sneaker! Luckily, Katie had turned back into herself before George could step on her.
    The magic wind came back again and again. It turned her into Lucille, the lunch lady, and Katie had started a food fight with some really gooey egg salad. The wind had turned her into other kids, too, like Jeremy and Becky. Once, the magic wind had even turned Katie into her very own dog, Pepper. That time, she’d chased a particularly nasty squirrel into Mrs. Derkman’s yard—and had destroyed her teacher’s favorite troll statue.
    Katie never knew when the magic wind would come back again. All she knew was that when it did, she was going to wind up getting into some sort of trouble—and so would the person she’d turn into.
    See? Katie wasn’t a goodie-goodie at all.
    Unfortunately, she was the only person who knew it.

Chapter 3
    “Okay, class, follow me,” Mrs. Derkman said as she walked up the stone staircase that led to the museum. “Remember, we have to be on our best behavior.”
    A tall, skinny man with a thin tuft of hair on his head walked over to greet the class. “Hello. You must be from Cherrydale Elementary School,” he said.
    “Yes, we are,” Mrs. Derkman replied. “Are you the volunteer who will give us our tour?”
    The man quickly shook his head,