Guys Read: Best of Friends: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
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Ernest is awkward. Ernest is...Ernest. And Dean wants nothing to do with him, until Ernest wins the most spectacular trip in the history of America – and is allowed to bring one friend.
The prize includes an hour on a twisty-straw waterslide that empties into a pool of chocolate milk. Now Dean has one week to become Ernest's number-one pal. Jean-Pierre is suddenly friendly. James is waving in the parking lot. The whole fourth grade is scheming for that second ticket.
Securing it means laughing at terrible jokes, trading away fruit snacks, and enduring a sleepover on a dusty floor. The video game controller is broken. The quest for chocolate milk is out of control.
A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.
- School Drama: Dean usually makes his weekly spending money betting quarters on basketball free throws.
- Funny Books for Kids: From kindergarten art mishaps with runaway hot dogs to accidental birthday serenades in Mexican restaurants, Ernest's antics are impossible to predict.
- Short Stories for Kids: Captures fourth-grade life with sharp comic details, including orange juice poured over dry cereal, strictly monitored television charts, and rambling hitchhiker ghost stories.
- Also by This Author: Extra Yarn, The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza and The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom.
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Mac Barnett is the ninth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. He is a New York Times-bestselling author of more than 60 books for children. His picture books include two Caldecott Honor–winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Extra Yarn and Sam & Dave Dig a Hole. Mac lives in Oakland, California. His website is macbarnett.com.
Jon Scieszka is the National Ambassador for Children's Literature emeritus and the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books for kids, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, Robot Zot!, and the Time Warp Trio series. Jon founded Guys Read to encourage a passion for reading among young boys, with the philosophy that boys love to read most when they are reading things they love. A former elementary school teacher, Jon lives in Brooklyn with his family. For more great books, more great facts, and more about your favorite authors, head over to www.guysread.com. You'll be glad you did.
Adam Rex is the author of many books, including Cold Cereal and Unlucky Charms, the first two books in the Cold Cereal Saga; the New York Times bestselling picture books The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors and Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich; the middle grade novel The True Meaning of Smekday (now a major motion picture from Dreamworks, Home); and the teen novel Fat Vampire. He lives in Arizona with his wife.
