“A job?” Bess gulped. “You don’t want us to clean the goat pen, do you?”
“No, Bess.” Sophie chuckled. “I need you to find kids for our goat yoga class tomorrow. They need to be here at seven thirty sharp.”
“No problem, Sophie,” Nancy said quickly. “We have lots of friends and classmates to invite.”
“Getting them to be on TV will be easy,” George added.
“Easier than cleaning the goat pen!” Bess said, clearly relieved.
“Good! I’ll get some permission slips to give to your friends,” Sophie said. “Tell them to bring their slip signed by a parent tomorrow.”
Sophie went to her office for the permission slips.
The girls couldn’t wait to find kids for the goat yoga class!
“I am soooo excited!” Bess said. Then, “What are we going to wear to the goat yoga class?”
“Goat footprints,” George joked.
Nancy smiled and said, “As soon as we get the permission slips, let’s go to Main Street. We’ll find lots of kids there.”
Nancy, Bess, and George all had the same rules. They could walk anywhere, as long as it was under five blocks—and as long as they were together. Together was more fun anyway.
When the girls reached Main Street, they found lots of kids they knew. But most of the kids knew nothing about yoga.…
“I like frozen yoga,” Peter Patino said, pointing to the nearby fro-yo shop. “Will they have chocolate or strawberry?”
Some kids had heard about yoga, but not goat yoga. When the girls invited Kendra Jackson, she asked, “Are the goats gentle?”
George nodded. “You won’t know there’s a goat on your back,” she explained, “until you smell the hay on its breath!”
“Ew,” Kendra said, wrinkling her nose.
When the girls asked Henderson Murphy, he shook his head. “I watch Danger Dog at that time every morning,” he said. “Tomorrow is the flea circus episode.”
“You’d rather watch TV than be on TV?” George groaned. “Whatever!”
The girls left Henderson and walked up Main Street. When they ran out of kids to invite, they turned onto Magnolia Street.
“I don’t blame Henderson for wanting to see Danger Dog tomorrow,” Bess said. “The flea circus episode rocks.”
“What if everybody wants to watch Danger Dog tomorrow morning?” George asked, imagining the worst. “What if no one shows up?”
Nancy wasn’t too worried. “Some kids said yes, some said no, and a few said maybe,” she stated. “Let’s hope for the best.”
The three friends were about to make their way home when—“Baaaaa! Baaaaa! Baaaaa!”
Nancy, Bess, and George froze. Had they just heard what they thought they’d heard?
“Was that… a goat?” Nancy asked.
“For sure,” George said, looking around. “After being at the farm all day, I know a goat when I hear one.”
“Except we’re not on the farm,” Bess said. “We’re on Magnolia Street.”
The girls followed the sound to the middle of the block. George pointed to a green house with white shutters. “It’s coming from the Dishers’ house,” she said.
Eight-year-old Leslie Disher was in the girls’ class at school. Leslie loved writing in her journal. She also worshipped teen singing idol, Brad Sylvester. Nancy, Bess, and George didn’t know Leslie’s twin brother, Wesley, as well. He was in the other third-grade class.
“Baaaaaaa!”
The bleating grew louder as Nancy, Bess, and George followed it to the backyard. A big trampoline was set up there. But it wasn’t Leslie or Wesley jumping up and down on it. It was a tiny brown-and-white pygmy goat!
“Baaaa! Baaaa!” the goat bleated as it bounced sky-high. The girls couldn’t believe their eyes as they watched the goat perform awesome front flips and backflips and midair spins!
“That’s a goat all right,” Nancy said.
“Not just any goat, Nancy!” George said with a grin. “That’s Pogo!”
Continue Reading…
The Great Goat Gaffe
Carolyn Keene
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR
CAROLYN KEENE is the author of the ever-popular Nancy Drew series of books.
PETER FRANCIS lives and works in the United Kingdom. When he’s not helping the Clue Crew solve mysteries, he can be found sketching frantically in his studio, investigating hidden landscapes, or growing his own vegetables.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Keene, Carolyn, author. | Francis, Peter, 1973- illustrator.
Title: The Big Island burglary / by Carolyn Keene ; illustrated by Peter Francis.
Description: New York : Aladdin, 2020. | Series: Nancy Drew clue book; #14 | Audience: Ages 6 to 9. | Audience: Grades 2-3. | Summary: Vacationing on the Big Island of Hawaii with friends George and Bess, elementary school student Nancy Drew searches for clues in the case of the missing camera.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019026968 (print) | LCCN 2019026969 (eBook) | ISBN 9781534442672 (paperback) | ISBN 9781534442689 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534442696 (eBook)
Subjects: CYAC: Mystery and detective stories. | Hawaii—Fiction. | Cameras—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.K23 Be 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.K23 (eBook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019026968
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