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I didn’t. My teacher did! She got arrested!”

CHAPTER FOUR
    “We saw her car,” Eric said. “It’s green and it crashed right into a tree just one block from here. That’s why Cam and I were late. Our bus was stuck in traffic.”
    “They should have put handcuffs on her,” Danny said. “They should have told her she has the right to remain silent.”
    Cam closed her eyes. She said, “Click!” She looked at the picture she had in her head of the small green car.
    Dr. Prell came in. Danny quickly sat down.
    Cam opened her eyes.
    “There are books in the back,” Dr. Prell told the class. “Please find something to read. There will be a teacher here soon.”
    Dr. Prell watched as children went to the classroom library and selected books. Cam chose a mystery. Eric took a biography.
    Cam sat in her seat. She opened the mystery, but she kept thinking about Ms. Benson and the small green car.

    “Here I am,” Mr. Day said as he walked into the room.
    “I hope Ms. Benson will be back soon,” Dr. Prell told him. “The children are reading,” she said, and left the room.
    Mr. Day slowly walked by the children’s desks. He looked at what they were reading.
    Cam closed her eyes again and said, “Click!” She looked again at the picture she had in her head of the green car that crashed into the tree.
    “Your eyes are closed. You’re not reading,” Mr. Day said.
    Cam opened her eyes. Mr. Day was standing right by her desk.
    “You should be reading,” Mr. Day told her.
    Cam looked at the mystery. Then, when Mr. Day walked away, she closed her eyes again and looked at the picture of the green car and the tree.
    “That’s it!” Cam called out. “Ms. Benson was telling the truth. I can prove it!”
    “It’s you again,” Mr. Day said. “You shouldn’t be calling out. You should be reading.”

    “But this is important,” Cam told him. “I have to speak with Dr. Prell.”
    “Just do what you’re told,” Mr. Day said. ”Sit quietly and read.”
    Cam looked at her mystery again. Just then a small folded piece of paper landed in the middle of the book. Cam opened it.
    It was from Eric. Are you sure? was written on the note.
    Yes! Cam added to the note. Then she folded it and tossed it to Eric.

    “Now you’re sending notes!” Mr. Day shouted. He hurried to Eric. “Give me that,” he said.
    “Come with me,” Mr. Day told Cam.
    Cam followed him to the front of the room.
    “Now I’m sending a note,” he said as he wrote. He clipped Cam and Eric’s note to his and said, “Take this to Dr. Prell.”
    Cam took the notes and left the room. Once she was in the hall, she smiled. She was going to see Dr. Prell. That was just what she wanted to do.

CHAPTER FIVE
    “I’m here to see Dr. Prell,” Cam told Mrs. Wayne, the principal’s secretary. Cam gave her the note.
    “Do you still click? Do you still have a photographic memory?” Mrs. Wayne asked.
    “Yes,” Cam answered.
    “Amazing, just amazing,” Mrs. Wayne said as she knocked on the door to Dr. Prell’s office.
    “Yes?” Dr. Prell called.
    Mrs. Wayne opened the office door. She gave Dr. Prell the note and said, “It’s the clicking girl.”
    Dr. Prell read the note. Then she waved for Cam to come in. “Cam,” she said. “I’m surprised at you. You’re in trouble on the very first day of school.”
    “I can prove Ms. Benson didn’t crash her car into that tree.”
    “You can?” Dr. Prell asked.
    “I was in Mrs. Lane’s bus,” Cam said. “I walked past the accident, and I remember that the car was facing the wrong way.”
    “The wrong way?”
    “Yes,” Cam said. “It was going away from school when it crashed into the tree. This morning, when Ms. Benson came here, she would have been driving toward the school.”
    “The car was facing away from school? Are you sure?” Dr. Prell asked. But before Cam could answer, Dr. Prell said, “Of course you’re sure. You’re Cam Jansen.”
    Dr. Prell picked up the telephone and