School Days According to Humphrey

99 Pages·2011·0.62 MB·English

by  Birney Betty G

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication

Chapter 1 - The Worst First Day Begins
Chapter 2 - The Worst First Day Gets Worse
Chapter 3 - Rules-Rules-Rules
Chapter 4 - Night School
Chapter 5 - A Friendly Face
Chapter 6 - Shake, Wiggle and Spin
Chapter 7 - A Visitor and a Visit
Chapter 8 - The Worst Class in the World
Chapter 9 - The Worst Class Doesn’t Get Better
Chapter 10 - The Very Worst Day
Chapter 11 - Brisbane’s Buddies
Chapter 12 - Hickory Dickory Dock
Chapter 13 - Brisbane Versus Becker
Chapter 14 - Working Together
Chapter 15 - The Best Class in the World

Humphrey’s Top 10 Rules for Classroom Pets
For more Humphrey adventures, look for
1
The World
According to Humphrey

2
Friendship
According to Humphrey

3
Trouble
According to Humphrey

4
Surprises
According to Humphrey

5
Adventure
According to Humphrey

6
Summer
According to Humphrey
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Birney, Betty G. School days according to Humphrey / Betty G. Birney. p. cm. Summary: Humphrey the
hamster is puzzled when unfamiliar students fill Mrs. Brisbane’s classroom at summer’s end, but he soon
learns that his friends from last year are fine and that the new class needs his special help. [1. Schools—
Fiction. 2. Hamsters—Fiction. 3. Frogs— Fiction. 4. Friendship—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.B52285Fr 2011
[Fic]—dc22 2010014792
ISBN : 978-1-10151624-9
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To Humphrey’s unsqueakably
faithful fans everywhere.

And special thanks to Rita de Leeuw for her
invaluable assistance with this book.
1
The Worst First Day Begins
It was a quiet morning in Room 26, so quiet that all I could hear was the
SCRATCH-SCRATCH-SCRATCH-ing of my pencil as I wrote in my little
notebook.
“I’m writing a poem about the end of summer, Og,” I squeaked to my
neighbor, the classroom frog. (I am Humphrey, the classroom hamster.) “I’ll
read you what I have so far.”
Summer, oh, summer,
I hate to say good-bye.
Summer, oh, summer,
Must you end . . . and why?
Og splashed gently in his tank as I continued.
I loved summer days
At Camp Happy Hollow.
And now that they’re over . . .
I stopped because there was nothing more to read.
“BOING?” Og twanged. Green frogs like him don’t say “ribbit.” They make a
sound like a broken guitar string. “BOING-BOING!”
“I haven’t finished it yet, Og,” I explained. “I have to find a word that rhymes
with hollow. Wallow? Or swallow?”
I stared down at the page again.
I loved summer days
At Camp Happy Hollow.
And now that they’re over,
I can hardly swallow!
Og dived down deeply in his tank, splashing noisily.