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    Project Peep
    Project Peep
    Project Peep
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    Project Peep

    By Jenny Meyerhoff and Éva Chatelain

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    Anna and her community gardening friends spring into action to help raise baby chicks in the third book in the Friendship Garden series.

    When Anna moved to Chicago, Kaya became her first real friend, so for her birthday Anna is determined to give Kaya the best present ever! The problem is, the thing Kaya wants more than anything is a pet, but her parents have a strict no-pets rule.

    Then Anna remembers that Mr. Hoffman’s third-grade class just hatched baby chicks! Anna decides that rather than sending the chicks back to the farm, she’ll convince her teacher to let the Friendship Garden raise them, so Kaya can have a pet of her own. But raising chicks is no easy task. It requires supplies (that cost money) and building things like a coop and a run. How is Anna supposed to get everything ready and keep it a surprise…especially when Anna and Kaya usually hang out every day?

    Kaya begins to suspect “fowl play” and assumes Anna is ditching her as a friend! Anna feels terrible and what was supposed to be the best birthday present ever quickly turns into the worst one. Will Anna be able to come up with a way to win her best friend back before the chicks get sent back to the farm for good?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateJan 5, 2016
    ISBN9781481439152
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    Jenny Meyerhoff

    Jenny Meyerhoff is author of the Barftastic Life of Louie Burger series, as well as the books Sami’s Sleepaway Summer, Third Grade Baby, and Queen of Secrets. She is also the proud planter of her very own vegetable garden. Jenny grows string beans, broccoli, and spinach, but she has never picked a purple pepper. When she’s not busy writing, she likes to hang out with her husband and three children playing Scrabble and watching movies.

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      Project Peep - Jenny Meyerhoff

      Anna Fincher was having a hard time paying attention to her teacher, Mr. Hoffman. It wasn’t because he was being boring. In fact, he was telling her third-grade class about a party!

      For the past two months, Anna’s class had watched chicken eggs develop in an incubator. Then they’d seen the eggs hatch and they’d taken care of the baby chicks as they grew.

      Friday will be our last day with the chicks in this classroom, Mr. Hoffman told his students. We will have a party to say good-bye.

      All of Anna’s classmates groaned. Anna groaned too, but not because of the chicks. She had something else on her mind: Kaya’s birthday. She didn’t have time to worry about chicks. She needed to think of a present for Kaya.

      In just one week Anna’s friend Kaya would be turning nine years old, and Anna wanted to get her the best birthday present E-V-E-R. But that was the problem—Anna didn’t know what Kaya would want most of all.

      New gel pens? Kaya loved to draw and paint.

      Rainbow tights? Anna was wearing tights with suns and moons on them. Maybe Kaya would like a pair too.

      Maybe she should get Kaya a squirting bow tie? No, that would be a better present for their friend Reed. He loved practical jokes.

      I’m so sad, Kaya whispered to Anna. How will we survive without seeing Lemondrop, Chicken Little, Fluff, and Feather? They’re my friends, and now they are going to be gone. She sighed.

      Anna nodded. She knew what it was like to say good-bye to friends. When she lived in Rosendale, New York, she’d had two best friends, Haley and Lauren. But since Anna had moved to Chicago eight months ago, they hadn’t kept in touch the way she’d thought they would. Even though Anna still wore the purple BFF bracelet they’d made, Anna wasn’t sure they still counted as best friends.

      And if they didn’t, then Anna didn’t have a best friend anymore.

      Kaya tapped Anna’s shoulder. You know what the worst part is? I have to say good-bye on my birthday.

      That’s the opposite of a birthday present. Anna frowned. It’s a birthday punishment.

      When Anna had first moved to Chicago, Kaya had been Anna’s first friend. Kaya had even helped Anna start the Friendship Garden, their school’s gardening club. Anna wanted to give Kaya something she would never forget. If the present was good enough, maybe Kaya would realize they should be best friends.

      Anna really did know the perfect present for Kaya. She just couldn’t get it for her. Kaya wanted a pet more than anything, but her parents were too busy running their frozen yogurt shop to help take care of one.

      The bell rang and all of Anna’s classmates got up to collect their belongings, but Anna, Kaya, and Reed went over to Chicken School. That was what Anna had nicknamed the corner of the classroom where Mr. Hoffman had set up the chickens. Anna loved nicknaming things.

      Chicken School had a big glass tank, like an aquarium, lined with wood shavings on the bottom. Dishes for food and water sat in one corner of the tank. There was a big light hooked onto the top to keep the chicks warm. Kaya sat right in front of the chicks and began to coo at them. Reed sat next to her.

      To the left of the tank was a small plastic wading pool, the kind that Anna used to splash in when she was little. It was just the right size for the chickens to play

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