GULP!

“This is our new student, Cody Michaels.”

Cody was standing in front of his new class with his new teacher, Ms. Harvey.

A classroom full of strangers looked back. His heart was beating fast. Twenty pairs of eyes were fixed on him like the guns of a firing squad.

“Tell us something about yourself, Cody,” Ms. Harvey said. “Where are you from?”

Topeka sounded so boring. It was time to create the new Cody. “Alaska,” he said instead. “We lived in an igloo.”