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Zusatztext Praise for EllRay Jakes Walks the Plank by Sally Warner : "The EllRay Jakes stories are just right for his real-life peers; short enough to be read by kids getting comfortable with chapter books and also enjoyable and authentic." — Kirkus Informationen zum Autor Sally Warner (www.sallywarner.com) has published more than twenty novels for young readers! including the Emma and EllRay Jakes series. She lives in Altadena! California with her husband and their not-so-miniature dachshund! Rocky. Klappentext Third-grader EllRay is becoming famous for messing up! and when his little sister accidentally kills EllRay's class goldfish! and then he forgets his teacher's read-aloud book at home! it only makes matters worse. Zusammenfassung Dead goldfish + bossy girls = big trouble! Things are going just swimmingly for EllRay. He's getting along with most of the kids at school. He's even getting along with his family. But then everything comes screeching to a halt when his younger sister accidently overfeeds Zippy! the classroom goldfish that EllRay was taking care of over spring vacation. Zippy is a goner. What is EllRay going to tell the kids in his third-grade class? Fortunately! most of them are sympathetic. But not bossy Cynthia. She sees this as an opportunity to blame Ell- Ray for her own mess-ups. Must EllRay now walk the plank for stuff that he didn't do?
