It's Snow Joke by Nancy Krulik Read Free Book Online Page B

the stairs to the kitchen and picked up the phone. “Hello?” she said.
    “Katie Kazoo, you’ll never guess who this is!”
    Katie smiled. She knew exactly who it was. The voice on the other end of the phone was one of the most famous voices in the whole world. It belonged to Rosie Moran, a famous child actress.
    Katie had met Rosie last year when Rosie was filming a movie in Cherrydale. Since then they’d been sending each other postcards and e-mails all the time.
    Rosie didn’t know it, but Katie had almost ruined her career. It hadn’t really been Katie’s fault. The magic wind had turned her into Rosie, and Katie had to act out a scene in the movie, instead of Rosie. And Katie was no actress. She was terrible!
    “Hi, Rosie,” Katie said happily. “How are you?”
    “I’m great. And you’re never going to believe this!” Rosie exclaimed. “I’m at the Pine Mountain Ski Resort!”
    “Pine Mountain!” Katie shouted into the phone. “That’s right near here!”
    “I know!” Rosie squealed back. “I’m filming a movie called Diamonds on Ice . It’s about a group of jewel thieves. There are a lot of snow scenes in the movie. We couldn’t film them in Hollywood, so we came here!”
    “Wow. Your school is on break already,” Katie said. “You’re so lucky.”
    “Katie, you’re missing the point,” Rosie told her. “I’m right near you. Maybe this weekend, you could come to Pine Mountain. You could go skiing while I’m on the set. And then we could hang out together.”
    “Oh, that sounds awesome!” Katie said excitedly. “Let me just ask my mom.”
    “Ask me what?” Mrs. Carew wondered as she carried a big basket of laundry down the hall.
    “It’s Rosie Moran!” Katie told her mom. “She’s making a movie at Pine Mountain. She wants to know if I can come visit this weekend.”
    Mrs. Carew thought for a moment. “I have to work at the bookstore on Sunday,” she said. “But I don’t see any reason why we can’t go to Pine Mountain on Saturday.”
    “Yipee!” Katie shouted right into the phone.
    Rosie giggled. “I guess that means you can come.”

Chapter 4
    By the next morning, there was a beautiful blanket of white snow on the ground. But not enough for school to be closed. So Katie put on her red boots, her thick pink parka, her wide wool scarf, her hat, and her mittens, and headed off to school.
    When she got to the playground, she saw that everyone else was all bundled up, too. She could hardly tell who was who. Nobody’s faces were showing.
    But Katie just had to find Jeremy. She had something really important to ask him. Finally she spotted his yellow parka near the slide in the middle of the yard.
    “Jeremy, hi!” Katie called out as she raced to catch up with him.
    “Hi,” Jeremy replied. “What’s up?”
    Katie looked around, making sure no one—especially Suzanne—was near. “Do you have a soccer game tomorrow?” she asked him.
    Jeremy shook his head. “The game’s on Sunday this week.”
    “Oh, good!” Katie exclaimed. “Do you want to come to Pine Mountain with me tomorrow? You could bring your snowboard!”
    Jeremy looked down. “I . . . um . . . I know I kind of told everyone I was a great snow-boarder, but I don’t really know how to ride that thing,” he admitted. “I mean, I can go down little hills in the park and stuff, but on a ski slope . . .”
    “That’s okay,” Katie assured him. “You don’t need to bring your board. We can ski instead. I’ve never been skiing. We can take a class together.”
    Jeremy’s face brightened. “That sounds like a great idea,” he agreed.
    “Then afterward we’ll hang out with Rosie Moran,” Katie continued. “She’s at Pine Mountain filming a movie.”
    “You sure she won’t mind if I come with you?” Jeremy asked.
    Katie shook her head. “No. Rosie likes you. She likes everyone from our school.”
    Jeremy laughed. “Well, almost everyone. She wasn’t too crazy about Suzanne Superstar