Free School's Out...Forever! by Kate McMullan

For all the lads in the BOYS READ, BOYS RULE BOOK CLUB who read
every DSA book: Charlie Adams, Jack Calabrese, Jack Lindly, Joseph Nelson,
Michael Nelson, Jonathan Oppenheimer, and Jonah Werbel of
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, Falls Church City, VA
    â€”KM
    For Kate—Thank you for creating the DRAGON SLAYERS’ ACADEMY
series—it was a fun ride! And to my three grandsons: Marco and
Stefano and Thomas, who are all just learning to read
    â€”BB
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ISBN: 978-1-101-57786-8
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    ALWAYS LEARNING
    PEARSON

S CHOOL’S O UT… F OREVER!
    By Kate McMullan
Cover illustration by Stephen Gilpin
Illustrated by Bill Basso
    Grosset & Dunlap
    An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Chapter 1
    D aisy, I am worried about Worm,” Wiglaf said to his pig as he sat beside her in a cozy corner of the henhouse at Dragon Slayers’ Academy. “’Tis not like him to stay away for so long.”
    Worm was a young dragon. Wiglaf and his friend Angus had watched him hatch from his egg, and they had raised the little pipling. He was grown now, but Wiglaf still thought of him as his baby dragon.
    â€œOrm-way ill-way ome-cay ack-bay,”
said Daisy in Pig Latin, which she’d spoken ever since a wizard put a spell on her.
    â€œI hope Worm will come back,” said Wiglaf. “And soon!”
    A bell sounded.
    â€œEgad!” Wiglaf jumped up. “I am late for Lady Lobelia’s Table Manners class.”
    Daisy’s eyes grew wide.
“Able-tay anners-may?”
    â€œLady Lobelia serves cheese and sausages in her class!” cried Wiglaf as he zoomed out of the henhouse. “’Tis a fine change from eel!”
    Wiglaf ran across the castle yard into the castle. He sped down a hallway, rounded a corner, and—WHAM!—slammed into the belly of Mordred de Marvelous, DSA’s well-fed headmaster.
    â€œOOF!” gasped Mordred. “Why, you little guttersnipe! You