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K-3
Illustrated by
Nancy Carpenter.
Freeze a fly in an ice cube? Walk backward to school? Run away from home to go live with beavers? Is there no end to the mischievous things this young girl can think of to do? Apparently not, but the pen-and-ink and computer-generated illustrations incorporating actual objects (stapler, bottle of glue, etc.) add life and humor to the repetitive text.