Fabulous Five 013 - The Christmas Countdown Page 8

"Where's Rainbow?" asked Jeffy, bringing Melanie back to the present.

  "I imagine she's still in the basement," said his father.

  "Oh, boy! She's missing all the fun." Jeffy scampered through the boxes and papers and headed for the basement.

  "The poor thing's taking a nap," called Melanie. "Why don't you just let her rest? She's had a lot of excitement the past couple of days."

  Jeffy ignored her and tromped down the basement steps. Melanie had just decided she would go to her room and listen to the tape when she heard Jeffy shout.

  "HEY, EVERYBODY! COME HERE! COME HERE!"

  Melanie followed her parents through the kitchen and down the stairs.

  "Oh, my," her mother exclaimed.

  Melanie peeked between her parents to see what they were looking at. There, in the bed that she and Jeffy had made for her, lay Rainbow and eight wiggling, squeaking little puppies, hardly bigger than mice. One was black, one was white, one was brown, and one was red, for each color in Rainbow's coat, and the other four looked exactly like her.

  "They're beautiful!" cried Melanie.

  Rainbow looked up at her, and Melanie could swear she was smiling.

  "Now, that's what I call pets!" cried Jeffy.

  "You haven't thrown away that list of people who need pets, have you?" asked her father.

  "Larry! How could you think of giving these adorable things away," said her mother, kneeling down next to the box and picking up a puppy in each hand.

  The rest of the family stared at Mrs. Edwards in disbelief for an instant and then turned to each other and smiled.

  CHAPTER 15

  "LOOK OUT!" yelled Jana as she tightened her grasp on her cafeteria tray to keep it from being knocked out of her hands. The girl who had run into her turned and stuck her tongue out and kept going.

  Jana was shaking with anger when she reached the table where the rest of The Fabulous Five were sitting. "Did you see what Geena McNatt did?" she fumed. "She almost made me lose my lunch. I mean literally."

  "Don't feel bad," said Katie, nodding. "She's making someone else's day right now."

  Jana looked in the direction Katie indicated. Geena McNatt was in an argument with Tammy Lucero at the other end of the room, and Tammy was wiping something off her skirt. It was obviously another bumping incident.

  "The way she runs over people, she needs her own private traffic cop," said Christie.

  "Remember what Jon said when Shane was talking her brother Max into donating to our animal fund," Beth reminded them. "He said all three of Geena's brothers were just like her. I guess it runs in the family."

  It seemed to Jana that wherever Geena went, trouble followed. She was in Jana's Family Living class and was always disrupting things and picking on some of the smaller kids. The bumping incident was the first run-in that Jana had had with her. "Pardon my pun," she said, giggling, "but I really don't care to run into her again."

  Jana does have another run-in with Geena McNatt. In fact she has to deal with the whole McNatt family. Find out how Jana handles the McNatt tribe in The Fabulous Five #14: Seventh-Grade Menace.

  Table of Contents

  TITLE PAGE

  COPYRIGHT

  DEDICATION

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  CHAPTER 15