Say What? (Ready-for-Chapters)
by Margaret Peterson HaddixEdition: Paperback
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Are My Parents Robots?, March 24, 2008

Say What? By Margaret Peterson Haddix

Sukie Rose Robinson ran through the house with tubs of glitter in both hands, when she ran into her father. She waited for him to scold her for running in the house, and spilling glitter. Instead, her father told her to stop picking her nose and asked, "If all of your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?"

When Sukie ate peas with her hands, instead of saying "Don't eat with your fingers," Mom said, "You'll put an eye out with that thing!" Suki and her brothers called an emergency kid meeting to discuss their weird parents. They decided to test their parents. Reed put hand prints all over the walls, and his dad said, "Eat your vegetables." When Brian bounced the basketball in the family room, his dad said, "Use your words." When Brian spilled orange juice all over the kitchen floor, instead of saying, "Clean it up!" Mom said, "Shut the door. You think we can afford to air-condition the whole outdoors?"

Have their parents been replaced by aliens? Are they really robots? The thought had Suki worried. She really wanted her parents back, she would even be glad to be scolded.

I really enjoyed this cleaver book. It made me anxious to see what their parents were going to say, next. And would the kids run amok? Would the house ever be the same? I reccomend "Say What", it's fun for kids and parents.

Jill Ammon Vanderwood, Author Through the Rug and Through The Rug: Follow That Dog (Through the Rug) These are fun read-together books.

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