Miss Brown Is Upside Down! Read Free

bridge in the Brain Games.”
    â€œHow are we going to build a bridge?” asked Alexia. “We’re just kids.”

    â€œYou have to useyour creativity,” said Miss Brown. “Now, what material could be used to build a bridge?”
    â€œWe should use something really strong,” Andrea said. “Like bricks.”
    â€œAccording to the rules,” said Miss Brown, “we’re not allowed to use bricks. Besides, anybody can build a bridge with bricks. We have to use our creativity and build our bridge out of something you might find in a classroom.”
    We all looked around.
    â€œPencils!” shouted Michael.
    â€œGlue sticks!” shouted Ryan.
    â€œPaper!” shouted Neil.
    Everybody was yelling stuff. I lookedaround the classroom. There was a box of toothpicks on Mr. Cooper’s desk.
    â€œToothpicks!” I shouted.
    Everybody looked at me like I was crazy. Everybody except Miss Brown.
    â€œThat’s a great idea, A.J.!” she hollered. “We can build our bridge out of lots of toothpicks!”
    Wow, that was my second great idea in two days! No wonder I was in the gifted and talented program.
    Mr. Cooper called Ms. Hannah in the art room, and a few minutes later she came in with a bunch more toothpicks in little boxes. We spent all morning gluing them together to build our toothpick bridge.Finally, just before lunch, the bridge was finished.
    â€œWow,” I said. “This bridge is cool!”
    â€œYou kids are so creative!” said Miss Brown.
    â€œWe should give the bridge a name,” suggested Ryan. “How about the Bridge of Death?”
    â€œYeah!” agreed all the boys.
    â€œYou already got to name the car,” complained Andrea. “The girls should get to name the bridge. That’s only fair. I say we should call it the Bridge of Love.”

    Ugh, disgusting! Andrea said the L word!
    â€œI agree with Andrea,” said Emily, who always agrees with Andrea.
    â€œAndrea is right,” said Miss Brown. “The girls should get to name the bridge.”
    â€œYeah!” shouted all the girls.
    And that’s how our bridge came to be called the Bridge of Love.
    â€œNext we have to see how much weight our bridge can hold,” said Miss Brown. “We’ll do that after lunch when the glue has dried. Who’s the lightest person in the class?”
    Nobody knew who was the lightestperson in the class. So Miss Brown called our nurse, Mrs. Cooney, on the intercom. She has a scale in the nurse’s office, and Mrs. Cooney said we could come down there and weigh ourselves.
    After lunch we went to Mrs. Cooney’s office. Each of us got on the scale, and Mrs. Cooney called out the numbers. I weighed sixty-six pounds. Michael weighed sixty-nine pounds. Ryan weighed fifty-eight pounds. The lightest person in the class was Emily. She weighed fifty-one pounds.
    â€œEmily,” said Miss Brown. “When we go back to the classroom, will you please stand on the Bridge of Love to see if it can support your weight?”
    â€œI’m scared!” said Emily, who’s scared of everything.
    â€œIt will be fine, Emily,” said Andrea. “The Bridge of Love is really strong.”
    Emily looked all scared as we walked back to our classroom. When we got there, she put one foot on the Bridge of Love, really carefully. It seemed to hold her up, so she put her other foot on the bridge.
    â€œSee?” said Miss Brown. “The bridge is holding you up, Emily! It just goes to show that we don’t need bricks to build a strong structure.”
    That’s when the most amazing thing in the history of the world happened.
    The Bridge of Love collapsed!
    Emily fell down!
    Toothpicks went flying everywhere!
    Emily was on the floor, freaking out. Her hair was full of toothpicks and glue. She went running out of the room.
    Sheesh, get a grip! All she did was fall through a bridge.
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