Illustrations by

Barbara Szepesi Szucs

DI ARY O F AN

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Book design by Yaffa Jaskoll

For Eoin, Leonora, and Beatrice

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THE TRUTH ABOUT FIELD TRIPS

FRIDAY

Diary, I am so excited!

Next week our class is going to do

something called a field trip. When our

teacher, Ms. Collier, first talked about it,

I thought she meant we would take a

trip to a field. We don’t have fields up

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here in the clouds, so I thought it

sounded fun.

I was even more excited when my

best friend, Claudia, explained

things.

“A field trip is when you get to go

SEE THE

AMAZING FIELD

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somewhere outside school,” she said.

“We all pack bag lunches, and the school

bus will pick us up and take us

somewhere cool.”

I gasped with excitement. “Like the

post office?”

Claudia laughed. “Even cooler than

that. This year, our class is visiting

Oceanside Aquarium.”

An aquarium! I love animals that

live underwater, even though I haven't

had much luck with taking care of

them at home. Diary, I’m sure you

remember the disaster that happened

when I tried to set up an aquarium in

my room.

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Luckily, we hadn’t bought any fish yet.

That was back when my winter magic

used to slip out without my control.

I know for sure nothing like that will

happen again.

This field trip is going to be so cool.

I wish we could go tomorrow. But

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tomorrow is Saturday, which means the

only trip I’ll be taking is to Granddad’s

castle.

Saturdays are for Winterheart

practice.

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