How to Eat Fried Worms (Scholastic Gold)

Note: “geez” is used often. Page 2: “That’s stupid.” Page 5: Other kids’ parents were alway nagging them to eat, eat; his had begun to worry about how much he ate. Not that he was fat.

He just hadn’t worked off all his winter blubber yet. Page 23: “Gawd, call his mother.” Page 28: My parents would kill me. Page 29: “…we’d smuggle it into class disguised as Raymond Dwelley, because he’s so fat…” Page 35: “You know how my father is.

He’s always yelling about something.” Page 39: “Shut-up!” “It’s just like the time my cousin Lucy got caught in the back seat of her father’s Chevrolet with the encyclopedia salesman. Nobody’ll tell me why there was such an uproar.” Page 50: “…jostled by a crowd of enormous, pigeon-breasted, middle-aged women…” Page 92: “You’re a bastard.” “I’ll beat your head in.” Page 105: “Heck..,” Page 109: “What the devil is going on in here?”