Class Dismissed

Illustrations by Lissy Marlin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Woodrow, Allan, author.

Class dismissed / Allan Woodrow.—First edition.

pages cm

Summary: Class 507 is terrible, and one day, after a particularly disastrous science experiment, Ms. Bryce quits and walks out in the middle of class, and the school office never finds out—at first all the fifth graders enjoy goofing off, but after a few days that starts getting boring, and the students begin to realize that school without a teacher is not easy, cooperating is difficult, and keeping a secret is harder than they thought.

ISBN 978-0-545-80071-6

1. Elementary schools—Juvenile fiction. 2. Teachers—Juvenile fiction. 3. Secrecy—Juvenile fiction. 4. Cooperativeness—Juvenile fiction. [1. Schools—Fiction. 2. Teachers—Fiction. 3. Secrets—Fiction. 4. Cooperativeness—Fiction. 5. Humorous stories.] I. Title.

PZ7.W86047Cl 2015

813.6—dc23

[Fic]

2014048233

First edition, November 2015

Cover art by Paper Dog Studio

Cover design by Yaffa Jaskoll

e-ISBN 978-0-545-80073-0

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