Reviewed by Catto Healthy News reporters |
“Lost and Found,” an excerpt from Wayside School is Falling Down
Written by Louis Sachar
Illustrated by Adam McCauley
In this chapter of the book, Maurecia and her “best friend” Joy are eating lunch when Maurecia realizes she has forgotten her chocolate milk.
While Maurecia goes to purchase chocolate milk, Joy decides to eat Maurecia’s entire lunch. When Maurecia returns, she is baffled by the fact she can’t find her lunch. She never imagined her best friend would steal her lunch, so she searches frantically for her lunch.
While crawling in the bushes looking for her lunch, she finds a paper bag that she thinks is her lunch. To the girls’ surprise, it isn’t her lunch. Instead, it’s a bag of money with more than $20,000.
The two friends ponder over what to do with it. Joy wants to split the money and buy some exciting items. Maurecia decides she should turn the money over to lost and found.
Two weeks later, Maurecia is introduced to an older man, Mr. Finch. The money was his life savings. He saved money by making pencils his entire life. He saved the money to do what he always wanted to do, and that was open an ice cream parlor.
Read this story to find out about the rewards that Maurecia and Joy received. It might not be what you expect.
Catto Healthy News reporters said they thoroughly enjoyed the story.
Illustration by Maria, 8th grade, St. Joe, 2023-2024.
